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The plane banked suddenly and my instinctive response was to grab at the arm.\u00a0 And then I laughed at myself as I was hardly going to fall out of the plane!<\/p>\n

We straightened out, then we went up some more, then we straightened out, then we banked, then we went up some more, then we banked.\u00a0 And on it went, up, down, roundabout.\u00a0 Ergh!\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t look out of the window any more and as soon as the seatbelt light went off, went and almost-stood [it was shorter than me] in the \u2018bathroom\u2019.\u00a0 David stood outside the door, which I hadn\u2019t shut, and took care of me and chatted up the hostess at the same time.\u00a0 He’s always been multi-tasking like that LOL<\/p>\n

I soon felt a lot better back there, or standing, whichever one it was that improved things, and David talked me into returning to my seat.\u00a0 I brought a cold wet paper towel out with me and dabbed pathetically at my neck and temples with it for the rest of the flight.\u00a0 I still couldn\u2019t look out of the window much, although I did try a few times because it was exciting and wondrous.\u00a0 After a little while we swapped seats so that David could have a turn at looking out and I felt better in the other seat, so stayed there.<\/p>\n

The hostess had said that she would come and get us and take us into the cockpit because that would make me feel better.\u00a0 We\u2019re still waiting which is a bit of a shame.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t know that turbulence happened regularly.\u00a0 I thought it was something that only happened on occasional flights.\u00a0 So we alternately went smoothly or bounced along.\u00a0 I felt sick and went white a couple of times but managed to \u2018come back\u2019 each time.\u00a0 David asked me a thousand times if I was OK and the hostesses did the magazines and drinks rounds.<\/p>\n

Time for food.\u00a0 I said no thank you.\u00a0 What a fool!\u00a0 David had a baby chocolate bar on his tray!\u00a0 I should have said yes just so I would have got my chocolate bar hehehe.\u00a0 On each of our 3 flights, the food always smelled like satay when they first opened it up back there in the depths!\u00a0 David had a lunch of lasagne, chocolate cake, cheese and biscuits, the chocy bar, and 2 cups of coffee.\u00a0 There was also an orange juice on his tray so I sipped on that.<\/p>\n

More looking at scenery – cautiously in my case – and then it was time to start descending for \u2018The Alice\u2019 [Alice Springs].\u00a0 Ooohhhhh!\u00a0 The hostesses handed around some minties for us to chew.\u00a0 More downing and banking and levelling and, this time, what seemed to me like violent shaking.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t cope with it at all and had to shut my eyes.\u00a0 I had my forefingers shoved in my ears to stop them popping, and was holding the cold towel across my face somehow.\u00a0 I was just conscious of lurching around in my seat, being forced in all directions!\u00a0 After a while David gave me a rough nudge, and the hostess was offering me a little sachet smelling of eucalyptus to hold in front of my nose.\u00a0 This was supposed to help the ears, so I balanced this under my nose with my \u2018spare\u2019 small fingers, still with my forefingers shoved in my ears, and breathed like billyo.\u00a0 What a sight I must have looked!\u00a0 But then my eyes were shut so no-one could see me eh?\u00a0 It all carried on still.\u00a0 Would it ever stop?\u00a0 There was such a bump and feeling of braking at one stage that I thought we had landed but, when I opened my eyes, we were still on a fair-ground ride, so I shut them again.\u00a0 It went on and on but eventually there was another bump and, this time, I could feel terra firma under us and the buffeting stopped.\u00a0 Eurgh!\u00a0 Let me off this thing!<\/p>\n

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Our small Qantas plane in Alice Springs<\/p><\/div>\n

We were given 30 minutes.\u00a0 We got off and walked past the aviation fuel smell of the engines and my mouth went dry.\u00a0 David stopped along the path to take a photo of the plane and I spat out my mintie into the garden because it was making me feel worse and hoped he would hurry before I keeled over.\u00a0 I felt so sick.\u00a0 We went through the airport, went to the toilets, and then into the main foyer where I flaked out, laying on a seat and couldn\u2019t stay awake.<\/p>\n

Too soon, David started to say that we had to get back on the plane.\u00a0 \u201cI can\u2019t.\u00a0 I can\u2019t!\u00a0 I feel dreadful.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t there a coach?\u201d\u00a0 \u201cNo.\u00a0 There\u2019s no other way, we\u2019ve got to go\u201d.\u00a0 \u201cI can\u2019t.\u00a0 I can\u2019t\u201d.\u00a0 I stood up and went green.\u00a0 David said that the toilets were just there – to the left but I wouldn’t have made it.\u00a0 The great outdoors was closer in the other direction! so I raced that way.\u00a0 There was no garden, and I wouldn\u2019t have made it any further anyway, so I had no choice but to throw up on the paving with all the taxi drivers lined up watching!\u00a0 Why be discreet when you can get some attention?!\u00a0 Thankfully it was only orange juice anyway.\u00a0 I took my next dose of motion sickness tablets and David found a staff member to apologise for the mess on the paving and let them know it needed clearing up.<\/p>\n

We walked back to the plane with me grumbling and saying \u2018I can\u2019t\u2019 all the way.\u00a0 David offered that I could wait outside the plane until the last minute.\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to be joking, I could smell the engines there and I changed my tune fast to\u00a0 \u201cLet me in!\u201d\u00a0 The only way I got back on was by resigning myself to the fact that I was just going to have to be sick to get to our holiday destination.<\/p>\n

David said afterwards that he thought he was going to have to leave me in the Alice and sell the house to come and join me.<\/p>\n

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