Crocodile Tears

Have you ever heard the expression? I used to accuse my brother of crocodile tears whenever he would fake cry for attention.

So Porto flight...first of all, has anyone else noticed there's always a difference between Domestic flights and Vacation flights? There's always more kids on vacation flights, and people always want to clap at everything.

As expected, there were a lot of kids on the flight, mostly toddlers. I wondered if they would be noisy on the flight, but nooooo, it wasn't the tiny tots making noise, it was the big 6 year old girl that I couldn't stand.

For some reason we spent 40 minutes taxing around the airport. Just as it started, this 6 year old girl in the row in diagonally in front of me starts sobbing and yelling things like "I don't want to go", "I want to go home", "Let me go let me go". Fuuuun. Finally when I start think the plane is going to taxi all the way to the ocean, we finally take off, and this only sets the girl off into more hysterics. Think lying across 3 seats, waving all arms and kicking legs. *sigh* Most of the crying was also half-hearted, just like the crocodile tears I mentioned.

Throughout the flight, she alternated between screaming, yelling, tandrums, talkings very very loudly, or jumping up and down by holding the headrest of the person in front of her...(I felt terrible for him). Most children I have encountered in this age range are usually pretty good on flights - looking with disdain at the kids who don't behave. But I've never seen a child be so disagreable for so long!!! *sigh*. Needless to say, I didn't get much sleep on the plane.

Oh, also, hello, a metro that has an airport stop? Hmm, how convenient. Like, genius really. What is WRONG with Toronto and Waterloo?

Off to explore Porto. There are palm trees here! I loooove palm trees!!

- S