Emirates First Class to Cape Town

At around T-55, we headed headed down to the concourse and the walk to B-3.
Not sure if it was the First Class tags but a courtesy cart stopped and the driver asked if we wanted a ride to our gate.  Thank you very much.

Gate B-3 turned out to be a bus gate and we were asked to wait for the First Class bus.  Turns out there are three buses for bus gate flights:  The regular bus (standing room only), the Business Class bus (2-2 seating) and the First Class bus. 

OK, this is one seriously nice bus!

About 7 minutes of driving around the airport and we arrived at gate C-21.

A long climb to the plane.

But worth it.

More Arabic coffee and dates.

Tonight's limited menu given the 4:00AM departure time.

But nice wine list including Dom.

Since we had just eaten breakfast, we passed on a meal and went alcohol-free... for a while. 

And watched a movie (Nightcrawler) while the rest of the plane slept.

Then had a late snack of Swiss meat balls with tagliatelle, tomatoes and basil. Nothing special but it took the edge of any hunger.

Then to sleep for 3 or so hours, only to be awakened by the sounds of some talking on his cell phone. Seriously. This ridiculous yap yapping went on for close to an hour. Apparently, such boorish behavior is now allowed on EK flights. The moron in 1F.  

Almost there.

We touched down right on schedule at just after 11:30A local time.