On the Plane

Date of Post: 6/21/2010 (Actual Date of Event: 6/20/2010)

I would post this directly to the blog, but I'm currently ten thousand feet above the surface of the ocean. I'm on my iPod at the moment.

So my two sister and I have been planning this for a while and we always thought it would go normally: go through security, wait, get on the plane and sit together through the flight. Wrong. We all got split up on the plane for being the near last people boarded. I'm sitting in between an elderly couple.

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We are now above St. Louis at 36,000 feet. It's been about half an hour and all I've done is listen to music and the awful jokes of the flight attendant.

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I'm not sure where we are right now, but it's now 11:14 AM. It's 9 in Seattle and I bet my grandparents are already there... awaiting our arrival at 11:30.

It's a few seconds from the last entry. We're 3 and a half hours left to go and it's about to get a bit bumpy!

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Airplane icecubes are the best!

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It's 11:47 right now and not much has gone on. We've got about 3 hours or so left...

It's noon.

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It's "noon thirty" and the flights almost done. We've got an hour and a half left. I have pretty much lost feeling in my legs by now. Luckily, it'll pay off when we reach Seattle (even if there's another hour by car to Everett).

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We're right over South Dakota! We're above Mt. Rushmore and there's an awesome veiw of a storm cloud off to the right. It's pretty awesome up here.

So Mr. Oldmen finally got up to use the "sail du bain" and I get my window!

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It's 10:40 AM (In Washington) meaning there's only an hour of flight left and then I'll be back on land! (Or at least until we visit Puget Sound.)

The Oldmen couple argue about crossword puzzles at 10:48.

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It's officially 1:00 PM and that means it's 11:00 AM in Washington and THAT means that there's only a half-hour left aboard this seemingly slow bus in the sky.

I've really got to use the bathroom at 1:02, but I refuse to use the airplane bathrooms!

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It's 1:28 and we're super close. They're taking up the last of the trash, which indicates our soon decent to SeaTac Airport. (And just for all the people reading this who don't know the geography of Washington's cities, SeaTac is between Seattle and Tacoma, hence SeaTac.)

Passing a few mountain tops at 1:32 Central Time.

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So it's obviously taking a bit longer than I thought, but not by much. We're seeing lots of clouds and lots of mountaintops and towns, clearly indicating the lovely little place called Seattle.

I've decided to name the Oldmens "Sheryll" and "Coldsburg" Oldmen. (Where Coldsburg came from, I'm not sure.)

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We'll be on the ground in half an hour! It's gonna be cold: 62 degrees.

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At this point I had to turn off my iPod, so here's thelast bit of my travels:

We landed smoothly in SeaTac and had to wait about seven minutes while we waited for the other plane in our gate to leave, since we were early. My grandparents had actually only gotten there an hour early, which is record slow for them. They got to the gate at the same time as us. We said our "hello"s and scurried off the the baggage claim. After that, we hopped in the car and drove through Seattle traffic until we reached clearer roads to home. We'll be staying here for three weeks and seeing a lot of relatives, places, and even animals.

Super Excited,
Wolf