IN FLIGHT

El Al the Isreali way... 

We are very fortunate to have Paul's work providing us with Business Class travel arrangements. A little more comfort for a long nine hours and half trip can make a huge difference!

However, flying business with El Al means getting the Israeli ambiance all the way. The flight was full (I never anticipated such a strong link between those two cultures!), and some people ended up travelling on the stewards seats (like in a bus!)... In terms of ambiance, we were able to entertain ourselves most of the flight with a super Idol show, followed by a Millionaire trivia show, both Isreali version. When the movie finally started to run, it did not have enought time to run till the end! 

As you all know, we are used to flying with Noam. Our best tool to guaranty a smooth flight has always been a car seat, where he feels comfortable to sleep. When the flights are not full, the agents are usually allowing us to use an extra seat for Noam's chair. Other times when the flight is full, flight attendants have let us have the seat on board, so between take off and landings, Noam can doze off in the seat installed at our feet, since flying business means a bit more foot space (or rather baby space for us). As I mentionned, our Tel Aviv - Beijing flight was full.  And as we boarded, we were informed about El Al wonderful policy of no roaming car seats, nor bassinettes for kids bigger than one (I still need to understand that one), so we ended up with Noam on our laps for the whole flights. After bouncing around (litterally) for a couple hours between the two of us, he finally collapsed on me.  Eventually we all ended up sleeping a bit, Noam longer than both of us!

You can check the picture to see who was the most comfortable for this trip!