We are back! We spent the evening of New Years Eve in a Thai restaurant with the family of my wife’s cousin. And after packing, it was off to the airport where we got to celebrate New Year’s Eve by being in a queue! But once through the gates, my wife and I were able to have a glass of champagne. Over this time my son fell asleep and when it came to the time to the time to get to the plane, moving him reminded me of moving a sleeping cat. At least he did not scratch!
On the plane from Colombo to Dubai, I watched Thor as well as catching up on sleep. I have wanted to watch it for a while but have missed out on chances in the past. I was not impressed at first, but the film did improve and was very enjoyable over all and told the back story of Thor and Loki quite well.
Dubai was a lot more relaxed compared to before, we rested, the kids ate and I drank (soft drinks).
On the way back to the UK, I watched two more films as well as sleeping at times. We flew on the Airbus A380 which I have always wanted to fly on. Auggie was a slow but great film. Similar in some ways to The Circle it was a disturbingly good film. The other film was The Dead Don’t Die. And I actually liked it. In the limited time available it allowed the viewer to click with characters, hoping some would die and some live.
Anyway, we are at home. Everyone else is asleep and I am watching Dr Who. I not going to be able to stay awake to listen to the Arsenal match. But while it is unlikely, I do hope we win. While we have not a proven defensive mastermind as a manager, I hope Arteta is going to be able to sort out our defence. As great a manager that Wenger was, he had a habit of ruining defenders such as the then German international Mustafi. Now we have sideshow Bob in defence. I can only cross my fingers and hope...
