Emirates flies directly from Seattle to Dubai. We spent around 15 hours on the plane, but Emirates makes it nice. Complimentary newspapers upon boarding; headphones, pillows, blankets, and a device (I watched some of "The Middle," TD!), music, news, TV & movies--plus kids' versions of all of those. They gave us each a zippered travel pack: sleeping mask, a fresh change of socks, and a collapsible toothbrush complete with a cute & tiny toothpaste tube. They had separate packages for the kids. Wowed by his blue zippered & insulated pack, L declared, "We could put our school lunches in these!" The cute, young flight attendants offered hot towels and later snapped Polaroids of us w/ our kiddos (the latter: something that didn't happen when we flew Emirates w/out children) and one made a special clay-art commemoration take-away for K. They fed us 2 meals, 1 snack that could easily be counted as a 3rd meal, & gave us lots of bevs & snacks. Anyone that enjoys what Emirates offers cannot possibly leave the plane feeling dissatisfied or hungry. It's long, but it's pampered & enjoyable ("Mister Aladdin, sir, have a wish, or 2 or 3!" They were, "on the job!") and we flew economy. When B flew in December he was bumped to business class (mid--it's between coach & 1st) on Emirates. He was offered a mattress--the seat folded down into a divided space and they provided him a mattress (after he had them clarify--he wasn't sure he heard correctly the first couple of times) and his little zippered pack was much bigger & included a razor, shaving cream, deodorant & cologne. Soooo nice! Mabye someday we'll be blessed to discover what business passenger kids & ladies receive.
We left Seattle in the evening on the 23rd (my beautiful sister's birthday!) around dinner time. We flew over the North Pole--in November a flight attendant pointed out the Northern Lights and we gazed out the window together. The in-flight screens are cool. There are 2 cameras to pick from: one that is stationed below the plane and one is like a pilots' view. At any time during the flight one can pick one of these cameras. There are also in-flight shows which mark the cities we fly over and state facts: altitude, speed, the number of hours to the destination, etc. We flew through an "endless diamond sky" to "a whole new world" and though we were in a middle row we could still view the "diamonds," because the aisle ceilings were sparkling with them. We arrived in Dubai about 8pm on the 24th. 
P.S. Thanks for "let[ting] me share this whole new world with you!"
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