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Wednesday, December 22, 2004
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Hey everybody! I'm home now, it feels pretty good in a way. I came into my room though and it felt a lot smaller then I remember. But the desk is still here and so is a lot of my stuff. Ok well, anyway let me start from the begining. I had to leave the house around 8:00 and head over to Ronoake to catch my 10:00 flight. Jo was great and offered to be my taxi driver to the Airport. It was a pretty nice ride and we had some good conversation on the way there. We actually got there about 45 minutes before the plane would take off so I thought we had to hurry. However during check-in the lady asked me if I would be willing to take a later flight in return for a free ticket anywhere in the US. Turns out the flight was only two hours later so I thought that would be great. Then both my parents would be able to come get me from the airport after all, because they would both be off work by then. So she changed up my papers and got my new tickets already. Come to find out later, the longer of the two flights she gave me Firstclass on. That was really neat which I will get to later. So now that I had an extra two hours on my hands Jo decided to wait around and keep me company for another hour or so. That was really nice. But once she left I decided to just get through security and wait at my gate until take-off. While I was waiting I just did some reading and spent a little extra time in devotions. Then I kind of just wandered around the airport for a bit. Eventually Allie actually called me from work and so I was able to spend some time and talk to her. I talked to her until it started to look like they were boarding the plane. Actually though they didn't board the plane until 20 minutes later. The flight was actually delayed about 15 minutes because of heavy traffic patterns over in Chicago. So I could have talked to Allie a little longer, she was at work though eating lunch so I guess it was good to let her get back to doing that. Anyway, finally they actually boarded the plane and we were able to have wheels up only about 25 minutes late. This plane had three little babies in it though. There were sounds of crying almost through the entire flight. Good thing it was only an hour and a half long =). When we were starting to come in to chicago we still had to circle for a few minutes while we waited for our turn to land. It was kind of fun though, We were flying over Lake Michigan and then coast of Illinois repeatedly. There were little boats in the water though and lots of stuff going on, on shore. Since were were low enough waiting for our turn to land I could see everything. That was kind of fun. Anyway once we landed I had to pretty much go from one side of the airport all the way to the other in order to get to my gate. But while I was there I took a little stroll outside just so see what Chicago was like. It was really really windy. But it was kind of cool. I stopped in a few shops while I was there too. Anyway I ended up getting to my gate pretty close to boarding time it was pretty cool. I only had to wait like 2 minutes. Also because I was first class on this flight I was able to board first. I had a nice chair.. it was almost like a recliner, I also had all the foot room a guy could want. Another thing that was really cool sitting up there was the guy next to me was a Pilot and he asked the stewardess to route all the cockpit radio communications through to channel 9 on the in cabin sound system. (Thats what you plug into to watch the flight movie, or listen to music they put on there). So since I over heard that conversation I was able to plug in and listen to the communication that went on from airport to pilot. I learned a lot by just listening that was really cool. Once we got to cruising altitue (aparently from the communiction we were at 23000 feet and 300 knots) They started playing the in flight movie. This time it was "A Sharks Tale" I had just seen it like two days before but it was still very funny. Worth watching twice in a row even. So I had a good time watching the movie, but then it gets even better. I got free food, and lots of it. I ended up ordering a good sized deli sub sandwich and it had vegetables and chips that came with it. I also had all you could drink Orange Juice and Coffee. All of this was served on fine glass dishes and I had real silverware and I even had some mini salt and pepper shakers that came with it. Talk about Firstclass.. they aint kiddin. =). Once I had finished my meal and an hour or so had passed she came by with dessert. It was a good almost 5inch diamater chocolate chip cookie and I had a big glass of milk to go along with it. Needless to say that flight seemed rather short and we were flying over seattle in no time. I then switched back over to Channel 9 to hear the radio communication and I was able to hear the traffic patterns of the seattle airport and the confirmation to land and where to taxi and everything. It doesn't get much better then that! After arriving I then called my parents to have them come pick me up as I headed down to the Baggage claim area to get my giant suitcase.. and even bigger box. I managed to find my mom down there and she helped me carry my bags (and box) down to the loading area where we met my dad waiting in the car. Then I was home about 10 minutes later. It was nice to be back and I just unloaded a few things from my bags and then I sat and had some dinner with my parents. We then just kind of lounged around and talked and caught up on a few things. I then decided to go ahead and fix thier computer last night too because it was really bad and almost to the point of barely useable. I managed to get it all fixed up in under an hour. By that time it was roughtly 1:30 my time. (Only 10:30 thier time though). But I was really tired from the long day for me. I didn't think I could stay up much longer. I had to just get ready for bed. I didn't even have the energy to blog or nothin. My parents were pretty tired too though so it was good timing for them to get to sleep as well. So I snuggled up in my old bed and off to sleep I went. So yep, that was my trip! I'll write more later.
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posted by Jeremy Dillinger @ 7:31 PM
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