If you’re tired of in-flight fast-unfrozen meals, at many major airports today, you now have internet access to an app that offers a variety of food choices. You can order freshly-prepared restaurant meals, rather than buying those often unappetizing platters in flight.

By using the B4 You Board app while on your way or already at the airport, you’ll get the order delivered to you at your gate. It will be all wrapped up and ready to take aboard your flight, If there’s a schedule delay and you need to stay close to the gate, you’ll be able to dine on a well-prepared quality meal while you wait.

Prices vary, according to the restaurant and ingredients you order. To get the service, simply download the B4 YOU BOARD app from the App Store or the Android Market, and follow the simple instructions and menu choices. There is no charge for the app.

Laura Dekker of Holland covered more than 27,000 nautical miles on a one-year sailing trip alone. If you had followed the girl's itinerary on a cruise ship, it would’ve cost you a fortune. Compute it out.

She made port visits aboard her sailboat, Guppy, in the Canary Islands, Panama, Capetown, the Galapagos Islands, Tonga, Fiji, Bora Bora, Australia and South Africa. A similar itinerary on a cruise ship would cost tens of thousands of dollars. Of course, Laura didn’t have shuffleboard, pool, spa, on-board shops, live music, casino, movies nor all-day buffets aboard her tiny craft.

Laura may be the youngest adventurer to succeed in such a voyage. Upon completion, her family requested both Guinness World Records and the World Sailing Speed Record Council to accept her claim. So far, the agencies haven’t complied, except to grumpily state that her trip was too dangerous for someone her age, and it set a bad example they didn’t want to encourage.

To tourists who view the Los Angeles (above) and Australian structures they may seem to be architectural twins. They remind us of Sally Fields as “The Flying Nun.” Or, if you misbehaved at parochial school, they may resemble the nun who gave you some well-deserved raps on the knuckles.

What’s your take on the super-modern look-alike music hall marvels that seem ready to flap, take off and fly?

Indonesian airport police recently confiscated two suitcases containing a total of 1,495 live baby pig-nosed turtles (not cartoon hero types).

The turtles are a threatened species native to Asia, and smugglers get high prices for them. In some areas, they’re considered a food delicacy, and sold in restaurants and from open street stalls.

The suitcases were being checked in as luggage. The airport cops first became suspicious when they noted that the suitcases contained screened air holes to allow the turtles breathing during the flight.