The flight from Dubai to Brisbane was some thirteen hours long. We both tried to sleep but only managed it fitfully. We did use the entertainment system to its full potential but also read quite a bit. Surprisingly the time seemed to pass quite quickly.
We saw the sun rising over the Indian Ocean which was quite a spectacular sight and was our second dawn in less than twenty four hours.
We were delayed in Brisbane as, sadly, there had been a medical emergency on board and a passenger had died. You will appreciate it was very much a dampener to our spirits and our thoughts were very much with the husband. All the passengers had to stay in their seats when we landed to wait for the Australian police and medical staff. The cabin crew dealt with it all very professionally, I think in many ways it was fortunate that there was a changeover at Brisbane.
The flight had been a little bumpy and it didn't change much en route to Auckland. We discovered on landing that a severe storm had passed over North Island at the weekend and assume that the turbulence was the tail end of that storm.
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