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 31st, 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 31st, 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
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