The Flight.

16 hours on an airplane seat. Sound like fun?

You have no idea

Toronto – Dubai flights on Emirates, I must say, are something to write home about.
Emirates is the leading airline in In Flight Entertainment, Comfort, you name it.

Even though as my mom points out, Emirates aswell as all other airlines have a huge gash in their side, and are bleeding out the Benjamins due to the insane gas prices. Yes, even Oil Producing companies are dying. Except Saudi Arabia, who as it stands are the only country in the whole wide world, who benefit from the rise in Gas Prices, and have a new multi-billion dollar investement coming up. Why you ask?

They refine the oil.

Anyways, sidetracked there as usual, back to why the flight was soo amazing.

 

First off, ICE.
ICE is Emirates’ In Flight entertainment system.
I – Information.
C – Communication.
E – Entertainment.

Ofcourse, I don’t really care about the I and C. It’s the E.

Literally, the skies the limit on this one. Every single new blockbuster movie that’s out at the Cinemas, is on that plane. Everything. Movies aside, there are tons of TV Shows. I did a full on attack on Friends and Scrubs.

Then, there’s music. Tons of Genre-Oriented radio stations, albums, and basically everything. Full Concerts too, Music Video’s…you get the point.

The movies I REMEMBER watching ( 16 Hour flight, it was ages ago, and I slept towards the end of the flight so I don’t remember too much ) were

1.27 Dresses
2. Dan in Real Life
3. St. Trinians
4. August Rush
5. The Other Boleyn Girl…or whatever it’s called. I fell asleep…very slow
6. Awake
7. A few others, can’t remember, plus TV Shows.

On their Essential Albums section, ofcourse, they had Radiohead.
OK Computer, probably the best album from them, definately the most renowned.

And, looking outside at the sunrise while listening to No Surprises, Lucky, and The Tourist…is just something else.

Watching the complete sunrise from my window seat was definately the highlight of my flight ( hey that rhymes! )

Words cannot describe how amazing it looked.

A picture tells a thousand words. Here’s a picture that I found that comes close to it.
Even so, this picture cannot describe how amazing it looked in its thousand word capacity.

The Sunrise...from a Plane's view

 

 Yeah it’s pretty crazy. Google Sunrise from a plane to see some more. There are some really amazing one’s…if your a fan of sunrises and sunsets like me that is

Here’s a pretty detailed run down of how it happens from 35,000 feet above ground, and over the clouds.

Of course everything is black at first…it’s night time. Then, you’d think the black completely goes and the sunrise seen on the pic starts. Thats what I thought too, but there’s actually a separation, and the black becomes more of a purple. It’s really cool. The top of course, is blue, and there’s a white-ish shade in the middle. Then slowly the sun comes out ( you can’t see the sun from the plane ) and orange-red rays of light slowly creep through the white and black area, as the blue is pushed upwards. It’s really crazy. Then after quite somwhile, you see the sun, and that’s the time where who ever took the picture…took the picture.

Now cream that Ice Cream sunrise with 3 amazing, relaxing songs by Radiohead, and you, myfriend, are officially in the “Out of This World” mood. I didn’t want the plane to stop, it was amazing. Check out these three songs if you can.
1) No Surprises
2) Lucky
3) The Tourist.

All by Radiohead.

That’s it for the flight, thanks for reading and please comment

Danny