The flight out, Feb. 29

Good afternoon all!

Sorry it has been so long without an update despite having so much to say.

2/29

There were a few delays on the ride to the airport, but on the unexpected side I got to enjoy a wonderful display of clouds. There had to be 3 completely different kinds and heights of clouds in the air on the ride over. A lower dark layer with holes in it allowed me to see the light of the setting sun play off the remaining two layers.

As I looked into them I saw an amazing trick of the eye... the paleness of the sky at the time mixed with the light on the clouds and seeing it cut off by the darker front layer gave me the vision of looking down instead of up. It was like looking down onto a series of islands, the wispy middle layer even passed between them to make it look like there was clouds to look down upon as well. Kept simply I wish I had a charged camera to snap a few pictures of the beautiful sight as we were heading out.

So as for the flight over, we had a storm going out but otherwise it went pretty well. I had no trouble navigating the airport (read: I did not get lost and I did not get irradiated or molested at the security checkpoint.)
I met some nice people while waiting for the plane to become available.
There was a defense contractor on his was to the middle east and a group of 20 students on their way to visit Paris.

I didn't realize it at first but I was seated next to their teachers the whole flight. (Noticing a SC county tee shirt seemed to jog the link in my head.) They were really nice and we talked for half the flight. I was tipped to order the scraps with my fish and chips, and I told them they could enrich their students cultural experience while waiting for the next flight with some Ian Bru.

For the rest of the flight, the food was ok, got to try UK flapjacks (basically oats, honey and rasins put into a small chewy square) and there was a nice bit. Of course I had some fanciful (and less so) descriptions of what I saw out the window through the flight... and I was mostly annoyed that my inner monologue was always in the voice of Morgan Freeman. >>

"As I looked downward, I saw the expansive web of the city through holes in the storm clouds. The cars I had once seen as the size of insects were now near invisible and why am I hearing this in Morgan Freemans voice?"

"It is still dark outside but I can see the clouds from above the first time, the sheets cover the now visible curvature of the Earth... and yet I still hear this in the voice of Morgan Freeman.. stop it already."

I only got a good 2-4 hours of sleep on the whole flight. I was in part too excited to actually fall asleep. Or maybe there were some other effects on the plane that were giving me issues and not letting me sleep?

And that is it for the post of today, Ill start writing down the next post after breakfast to continue catching up.


I wish everyone a wonderful day and feel free to talk back to me here or through email and the like. ^^