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I reached home earlier this morning and had some sleep after taking breakfast, took family out for shopping in the evening and just now as everyone is asleep I am back here on Steemit. I had the best 3 hours on the flight as I wrote and took pictures all the way till we landed, some 9 samples of 5 minutes free writing and 2 stories from this recent travel that i did today.
I of course didn't have in-flight internet access so i thought of writing those on board and posting those once i get home and free. Part 1 is more about the story and less about the pictures. Here it goes,

The best flight I had in my life yet, Left home in time and fortunately realized about not carrying the only thing required to fly, Passports :D Can you believe that? :D fortunate that I realized only at the gas station next to home, unfortunate that I did something which I never did before, I never kind of lost anything before, Its because may be I have been good with all the stuff or responsible about everything ( the only time i can use the word responsible for myself :D ) or I know that 3 taps game where you keep all the compulsory things in three pockets and can tap one two and three after every 20, 30 minutes and never lose anything, heard it somewhere and it has kind of helped me a lot in all my time traveling.

Getting back to the topic, went back and took the passports, picked a friend up on the way to the airport and reached airport well before time (This again is the first time I am claiming this about myself :D ) Another friend who also works at the airport and had his shift, was waiting for me in the departures.
Now Imagine having checked baggage allowance of 30 kgs with 1 bag only plus 7 kg in hand carry but bringing about 5 bags of almost 80 kg :D plus the backpack with all the mobile phones and chocolates and gifts and the all important laptop, I surely costed the airline equal to some 3 normal passengers. Everything was well taken care of and had no hurdles whatsoever, was asked to pay nothing and had to wait in no over weight queues. Yes I would have liked to stay in the queue like other passengers but i was not sent to any queue.
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I couldn't complain about being treated that good because it was once my work place and everyone knew me. Could i turn the favor down? that could've left the friend disappointed who worked this hard to manage all this for me, or I could have done it but I would have lost a lot out of what I brought and could have possibly lost some gifts too.
Getting ahead with the immigration and security everything went smooth until i was stopped at the security check for some scissor in one of my bag, which i had no idea of. Later on I got to know that it was one of those chocolate boxes which my friend gifted me, I didn't know if it was a mistake or a prank because all it had was make up tools and a scissor but no chocolates at all :D I kind of offered the security to throw all the box but she insisted me to keep the rest as scissor was the only security hurdle. I was so freaked out of carrying a box full of make up tools that i threw it in the next available dust bin and I thought I will deal with that friend later. This surely was some experience and a lesson too, never accept anything from any friend without checking every bit of it as sometimes it could land you in some trouble at the security checks and leave you with no source whatsoever. What if it had something which could get me into some further trouble? I didn't even know what was inside it and was totally clueless.

Anyways, Lets not think of the only bad thing and get ahead with what happened afterwards. I was offered some nice breakfast at macdonlad's as I never really like the in flight meals. No matter how heated the food is, it just never feels fresh. An Avocado juice followed by meeting some other friends and colleagues who were at work. Had a cup of tea from the famous Bombay Chowpathy and left for the gate, I had already checked 3 of the 4 big bags I had, the fourth one was taken at the gate and i was all free with only a back back having nothing but some gifts,clothes which could not fit in the other bags and a laptop.

I was allotted the best seat in the aircraft too and was well taken care of at every inch of the journey up til then, Then the aircraft took off and as soon as it did it faded in some endless clouds and all i could see was clouds and sun shines.It provoked so many thoughts within my mind
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Out of the thoughts I tried writing for the 5 minutes free writing contests, the one am writing now deserved more than mere 5 minutes I thought as it had a lot more to be explained, The announcement that "we are shortly landing" has been made and I better put the laptop back in the bag and take advantage of sitting in the very first seat, only sitting beside the captain would've been any better than this :D

I was so into writing these last 3 hours that i forgot to ask for any meal or even water and now i feel really thirsty, as if i haven't drank for ages :D Its about time that we land and I get to see my mother waiting outside with my elder brother, Will post this as soon as I get free after reaching home. I hope this can be a good read for everyone, I can already see the roads and the green fields and the canals down the window and I can't wait to touch down.
Look at this guy already reaching there before us :D

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Apologies for not being able to reply all the comments because of traveling and family time, will surely do better tomorrow. Till next time , see you guys
@hananali
@Peace&Love

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Welcome back to your lovely homeland. I'm glad that you've safely reached to your homeland.
I'm sorry to read that you'd lost your friend's gift. Be careful next time, I've have heard from some peoples that this this is due to negligence of staff.
I'm glad to read that you had written your post while your journey. I'm surprised to read that you were so busy in writing your post that you didn't asked for meal, I this is due to your passion of writing.
I'm glad that your beloved mother and lovely elder brother welcomed you.
I'm glad that you are enjoying with your lovely family. I'm feeling honor for you that you've spent your life's precious part in abroad for your family.
I especially pray for your beloved mother and for you and for your family.
I hope you have a good day with your family.

Thank you so much for responding this well @aiman
You are always being a very gentle and appreciating soul, I thought it's better to write than to just play mobile games or try to sleep because that will be wastage of time. By writing all the way till landing I somehow got enough out of the time.
Samsung note 8 has a very good camera I agree but I hate the fact that new and new mobiles keep coming, I thought I had the lastest phone but in a week they launched note 9 :D
I was writing all the way and it's true that I didn't ask for any meal or drinks :D but I had to hate the decision later when I had to wait an hour at baggage claim and I was thirsty too :D
My mother did welcome me but she had to wait an hour as the luggage arrived late and I didn't like that, good to be back home I agree.
It's a whole new world.
Thank you for the prayers , May ALMIGHTY bless you and your family too :) Have a great weekend

Thanks for good reply. Keep enjoying with your family.

You're welcome :) Have a great day

Great story! Thank God for your journey. Am sorry i have missed our chats., was due to exams and school crises...much excitement as the premier league begins, Chelsea and liverpool kicked off with big victories...

Thank you for liking it @riwanola :) Am glad you liked the story.
How did your exams go? All good? yeah i saw the updates but unfortunately couldn't watch the match live as i went out for Eid shopping. Am glad both our teams won, looking forward to the Liverpool and Chelsea tie

Cool. Yeah, Eid mubarak in advance. Looking forward to the tie too!

Eid Mubarak to you too :)
Tie will be very tough this season, let's see how German aggression goes up against Italian defense

Same here 🔥

I love the airline meals, especially in flights overseas. I am sure you would have loved it if you flew with Qatar Airways or Emirates

Thank you for the comment :)
Those are some very good airlines but a shame they don't fly directly to my city and I do not really like transiting as it takes a lot of extra time and extra traveling which isn't just worthy for a good meal.
This was a budget airline though, as its a very small airport unlike Lahore, Karachi or Islamabad

great post @hananali , you most certainly learnt your lesson , check what your friends give you !!! I hope you gave your friend a telling off x

He gave me a lot of chocolates, I didn't really have time to go buy those so I asked him to help me with that, everything else worked pretty fine but that one box was kind of a mistake or a prank, talked to him in the evening and its all fine now :D How have you been ? @winchestergirl42

least you sorted it out , I am fine , just had a day jet washing a a large path , well I didn't much , just swept up : ) , how are you anything planned for the weekend

Yeah I sorted it out adn will make sure this was the first and the last time, Hope you had a good.
Yeah had some toured with family planned for the northern areas, but it got delayed to next because of my University admissions which are in these coming week days

are you a uni student or teach ?

None for now but I will be a student soon. I wanted to finish my post graduate also, so i left job came back home to finish studies first

ok , well I am sure you will do well , what are you studying can't remember if you said or not anything to do with writing ?

I'l study business, that was my field earlier, writing is more of a hobby or passion even though am not that good at it either :D but i'l keep trying until I get pro at it as you are at artistic photography :D

Nice story...don't do same mistake again okay, it's very important to bring passport if you want to go by plane, and it's can give us a knowledge that airport security not let us to bring everythink, I hate it....lol
Btw...have a nice day with your family and send my regard to them

haha of course this was the first time that i forgot my passport home and was stopped at any security also, may be first and the last time as am always very informative with all this.

Airport security does everything possible for our own security, yes we hate it but we do not really have an option :D

Thank you for the regards and pay my regards to your family too :) Nice day @yati

haha! finally home my friend! so good to hear it went well, except the security hangup.
great job and good photos!

haha that was one funny moment, the lady police officer looked at me in a weird way :D I asked her to dump the whole box as its not what i was expecting it to me. She teased me just as you would have by telling me to take it all home as its fine to carry that on board :D I said no its not and dumped it myself :D That was one " laughs all around" moment :D
Thank you for liking the post and being fine with me not replying to all your earlier comments, I shortly will :) Good day @janton

I'm just happy that you made it safe and sound and are back home, don't worry about late replies or anything like that, real life and family comes first.

Of course family comes first :) That is why i have lost so many notifications in these last 3,4 days and will be nowhere in the engagement league this week i guess, will be back for next week hopefully

howdy again this fine Saturday! the Engagement League? Dream on. lol!

hahaha this week i will not be in any list let alone the top 10 lol
next week i will surely be back on, not really sure though. Still struggling with the internet connection, have to use mobile hot-spot for now before I get a connection

hananali! what do you mean? your parents don't have an internet connection in their house?

They don't need one, everyone has it on their phone. They dont need No landline connection yet but now I will apply for one I guess or get a broadband device

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