A haphazard chronicle of my inevitable misadventures during a year in Vietnam and points east.

p.s. I'll be pitifully grateful if you send me email during my exile: TravelerKaty@hotmail.com

October 2002 November 2002 December 2002 January 2003 February 2003 March 2003 April 2003 May 2003 June 2003 July 2003 August 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 February 2006 March 2006 May 2006

 
American airline companies would do well to adopt my favorite element of my flight to Vietnam: Stretching with Asiana.

With about a half hour to go before arriving in the Incheon Korea airport (a gorgeous place, by the way -- WAY better than Seatac), they turned off the headphones and turned up the sound in the whole plane. On our video screen we watched as a male and female Asiana flight attendant sat down in two linked airplane seats in the middle of a huge grassy field surrounded by trees, on a lovely summer day. They proceeded to lead us all in a seat-bound exercise routine, that had most of the passengers stretching their arms up, twisting around, bending over, turning their necks from side to side, and clapping periodically. It wasn't in English, so I couldn't exactly follow the ongoing patter, but they also did some inexplicable circular rubbing of the temples and lymph nodes.

It looked hilarious to see the whole plane doing this, but most of us really got into it, and I for one felt loads better when it was over. Bring on the exercises, United!
posted by Katy at 3:08 AM