Quick Indy Update

Hey everybody!  I had hoped to get another post up today about my trip but I had a shift at the library, a wonderful Bowenwork appointment that I got to sleep during, and I still need to study for meeting tonight!  The update is in bullet form right now but I'm the only one who can understand it!  I am taking tomorrow as a rest day so I will work on it then and hopefully have it up soon!  I can't wait to share some of the adventure and hope to hear from you all!

Indy Pic Dump 1

 We flew Frontier this time around and evidently each plane has it's own 'mascot'.  The first leg of our journey we had Domino the fawn on our tail and wing tips.
The reason I could get this pic, we got awesome seats just behind the wing, my favorite spot.  From here I get great views of the ground and I get to watch all the ailerons wiggle and such during take off and landing.  Wow, how nerdy is that, I knew what they were called (though I did look it up to make sure I had the right word).

 This mountain range was so pretty!  The photo doesn't really capture how majestic it was, even from above.

 So weird, so cool.  I reminds me of the brownies my sis and I make, all crackly on the top.

Deutschland Bear and the animal crackers I ordered.  I found it highly amusing that it stresses that they are a "Good Source of Calcium".  Who cares!  They taste good; it is fun to bite their heads off; and I like making the lions roar at nearby family and friends.

I suppose I ought to introduce Deutschland Bear.  :)  Deanna and I got him at the tail end of our last Bethal trip at a Cracker Barrel and he has been my travel companion ever since.  He has eaten a whole bran muffin on a flight, colored in my coloring book, played on a computer, been bird watching and visited Canada.

Some of our neighboring planes when we landed in Denver.

That's a lorakeet in the back.

TORNADO SHELTER?!  In the bathrooms funnily enough.  I wanted to snap a pic of the sign in the doorway but there was such a steady flow of people (there was no way to avoid some sort of unfortunate pun, I'm sorry) that there was never a good moment.

Our 'mascots' on the flight from Denver to Indianapolis were Lola and Max the cougars.  An owl and a sea lion graced the neighboring planes.  Fun fact learned today; just as cougars are called mountain lions or pumas depending on the location, sea lions are the West Coast name for the East Coast seals.
You see those dark clouds in the background?  They were thunderclouds!  There was a bunch of lightening as we were sitting in the plane before take off, which the flight attendant got snippy about when I mentioned it.  When we finally took off the pilot had to fly around the edge of the storm and climb much higher than the previous leg.

Deutschland Bear coloring my new coloring book with my new colored pencils.  Boy does ... er ... his hand hurt.

Look who I found in a claw bin in a Meijers!  Annoying Orange!  What are you doing there?!

Is it still a four mountain day if you're above the clouds?

YAY for WiFi!  I finally figured out how to get on my great-aunt and uncle's WiFi.  Such a happy camper!  Here is what I wrote yesterday on our way to Indiana.

Tuesday, July 31^st, 9 am

Is it still a four mountain day if you're above the clouds?

That is the question my mother teasingly asked me at my excited exclamations when I spotted the four mountain tops peeking out of the grey swirling morass. I love flying. Flat out love it. I used to want to be a flight attendant so I could fly everywhere! Then I realized how difficult it would be to make meetings and service time so that dream quietly retired until the new system.

Today we have two flights, one from PDX to Denver, the other from Denver to Indianapolis where my grandmother and great-aunt will meet us. As usual it was cloudy around Portland but right now I can see the ground clearly below me, stretching like a brown and green quilt in desperate need of an ironing. Somebody doesn't know how to make their bed. I find the clouds above Portland to be fascinating. You'd think with something as puffy as clouds appear to be from the ground that the bottom of the cloud bank would be knobby or irregular but it's like someone took a painter's spackle knife and shaved off any extra cloud cover. The top is as wispy as any you'd see on a sunny day (what's that?) but the bottom … it is so cool!

Also, as we were beginning to taxi toward the runway, four Thunderbirds took off! Made. My. Day. And made me really sad. I LOVE the air show and watching/feeling the jets go over. Unfortunately, the Air Show at home is this weekend! This will be the first air show I have ever missed. So depressing! I have such fond memories of sitting on the roof with my dad and a scanner on the pilots' frequency, listening to the tower chatter as we watched the Red Baron dogfight, the wing walkers, the heritage flight and the THUNDERBIRDS … or in my childhood the Blue Angels. <3 It is not summer without roasting marshmallows and the Air Show. -sigh-

Soundtrack- Glenn Miller, Styx, Beach Boys, Billy Joel, Three Dog Night, String of Pearls

Tuesday, July 31^st, 11 am PST/12 am

Our pilot was amazing! You couldn't tell when the wheels touched during the landing! And the flight attendants were super nice. Awesome experience.

Trying to get WiFi at Denver Intl Airport, not so nice. Trying to figure out which signal to connect to is not easy, then when I did, I had to watch an ad. Plooey.

And in other news, my mother is messy! ^_^ We got KFC chicken strips for lunch during our three hour layover and mom got honey for her chicken (nummy). And got it all over her hands. She ended up picking up her drink using her wrists like a cute little sea otter. Sometimes I wonder how we are related! :D

I am so fascinated by clouds right now! The ones we saw coming into Denver were big and fluffy and looked like the fluffiest whipped potatoes ever! And so pure white! It made me a bit hungry. :)

Soundtrack - Disney Greatest Hits and Disney soundtracks