Day 46 - Final flight.

Good news!That 'request' thing that the lady at the desk put through for me worked out.

I had left the gate area to walk around a bit after eating the yummy cupcake my cousin sent with me - a pain to transport as it involved a plastic container and toothpicks stabbed into the cupcake to stabilize it so as not to waste the yummy icing - but worth it. It kind of tasted like brigadeiro, one of my fave things from Brazil, and also one of my specialties to make. I also got myself a proper frappucino from Starbucks, because I was feeling a but down and needed a pick me up. Hong Kong style milk tea flavour. Yummy. Not available in skim milk (I think that fully customizable thing was mainly in Canada and the US - though partly it might just be that Asia seems to love super high fat contents in their dairy. Honestly, sometimes I forget to specify an it's honestly practically cream) but she did reduce the sugar.

So anyways, was heading back, talking to my brother on the phone (so much HK credit to use up) when I saw that there were finally staff at the gate. I went up to plead my case, and it was already done - she just printed my new boarding pass.

So now I'm sitting pretty. Yummy drink. Comfy chair. And the promise of potentially at least resting on my flight. It's going to be Friday morning for me for the next fourteen hours. We leave at almost 3am, and then land in TO at just past 5. That's a lot of movies.

This might be my last post for awhile, unless something spectacular happens on this final leg of my trip. It's been awesome blogging throughout this trip, and it is especially nice when I hear that someone is following along. It really helps avert feeling isolated while traveling alone.

I do plan on doing some posts recapping, and offering travel advice - not to mention tagging posts and correcting some of the more annoying mistakes I've made - but that might have to wait awhile. In the interim if anyone reading this is planning a trip and has questions feel free to post them, or just ask me. I'm good for general Europe and South America advice too, in addition to the places I visited on this trip. As the blog is called Joana Abroad, I'll also pop in with posts when I take other trips. I have a few in the pipelines I'm excited about. Next up will be Halifax for a wedding, unless I visit my sister in Calgary first.

With starting my PhD (the classes anyways as on papers, I started before I left for this trip), along with other obligations (like earning money. I'm kind if scared to get my next bill) it's due to be a busy fall.