半年振りにボストン行きの飛行機に乗りました。オンラインで事前に搭乗手続きや座席指定ができるので助かります。運良く希望の最後列の通路側の席が取れました。飛行機に乗り込むと隣が空席で更にありがたいことでした。
珍しく雷のために機内で３０分待機があったものの順調な飛行に入りました。いつもなら飛行中は座席前のスクリーンで好きな映画や音楽を楽しむのですが、今回はただただ休みたかったので注文したオレンジユースにウオッカを入れて喉を潤し、後は落語を２つ聞いて食事もちょっと箸をつけただけで眠る体制へ。といっても機内で眠ることができない私は目を閉じているという感じです。
５時間ほどして洗面所に立った際に後ろのドア付近のスペースでストレッチをしていると、客室乗務員の方が「『竹踏み』がありますよ」と話しかけて下さったのでびっくり！昔は『竹踏み』の搭載などありませんでした。これは乗務員の発案か又は乗客の希望が採用されたのか、いずれにしても驚きの事実を知りました。もちろん、せっかくなので取り出して下さった『竹踏み』をしばらく使って元気回復をしました。
I got on a plane from Narita to Boston for the first time in six months. It became very helpful for me to check in and to choose the seat online beforehand. Fortunately I was able to get my favorite seat which was an aisle and the last row seat. On top of that, when I took the seat, no one came to the seat next to me, so I was very comfortable during the flight.
Although we had to wait for about thirty minutes in the cabin before the plane took off because of the thunder, it was a smooth flight. Usually I enjoy inflight music and movies but this time I ate very little for dinner and listened to the audio for very little time, and rested because I was so tired and wanted to rest early. Although I could not sleep during the flight, I just kept closing my eyes.
When it had been about five hours since the plane took off, I was stretching myself in the space near the back door, and one of the cabin attendants told me that there was a bamboo foot-massaging board. I was very surprised because I never expected they had such a thing on the plane. There was a time when I was working at the airline company as a cabin crew, at that time there was no such a thing on the plane. I don't know if it was because of the cabin attendant's idea or passengers' wish, but now I know that they carry bamboo foot-massaging board. Of course I appreciated the board and used it to relax my feet.
