Bel's first overseas trip

29 Dec 2006 was a very significant date. It was Baby Bel's first trip overseas, and she got to fly SIA's new Boeing 777-300ER on the Paris-Singapore route! The new aircraft is great:

- seats are in a 3,3,3 configuration, and there's a lot more legroom and head clearance space

- it's got excellent in-flight entertainment hardware and content

- toilets have mirrors, are brighter and have very user-friendly features

Coming back to the trip... Needless to say, Bel's parents and grandma were worried about the 12 hour flight from Paris to Singapore, and flashing through our minds were questions like:

- would Bel's ears be OK during the climb and descent?

- would her skin be able to take the cabin's dryness?
- was Bel going to be difficult, cry incessantly and drive the other passengers nuts?

Finally, everything went quite OK! Once we were on board, the SIA cabin crew took great care of us: they even gave us nappies and baby wipes.

Baby Bel was very well-behaved, and we think it had to do with the drone of the engines putting her to sleep. Check her out in the photo, so peaceful in her bassinet!

It was certainly a pleasure travelling like that, we even got to watch a couple of in-flight movies...