Across the Country (Day 0)

August 8th, 2009

Short entry for yesterday perhaps? Well, I am safely here! Success. =)

Flight from Oakland to Midway airport here in Illinois was very nice thanks to the comforts of modern technology (iPod and laptop w/ movies and IT Crowd) though we did have a bit of excitement. Right as the engines were spooling up for us to take off, a lady fainted and fell over into the isle =( So back to the terminal we went to get her checked out, rounds of "is there a doctor on board?! A docotor anywhere?" being called from everywhere. Turns out she was just dehydrated and after a bit of water and some air, she was just fine. Then off we flew! Once the initial excitement of being able to see the whole bay area from above wore off, everyone began to settle down for the 4 hr flight. I brought some earplugs from work and my noise cancelling headphones and spent the beginning of the flight sleeping in blissful quiet =) why have I never thought of this before?! Everyone knows how great airplane food is these days, so we brought a 5 dollah foot long *jingle plays in head... yes subway is sponsoring me.. =P* each to enjoy on the flight =) Let me Tell you, the glares we got from the people munching on peanuts.. yikes.

The rest of the flight seemed to just fly by *buh duh chshh* and before I knew it, we were walking off the plane straight into the hot wall of humidity that is "midwesten air" about 8ish central time.

Landing In Chicago

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Our own personal welcome

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From there, grabbing the baggage was a breeze, and we picked up our rental car, played some luggage tetris to get all of drews huge bags packed away, and headed off to my grandparents house! Took about.. Eh.. 45 min?

Said Luggage

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As always, walking into my grandparents house was a mixture of old memories, absolutely delicious smells, and warm hugs.. I will never get tired of this place =). We all piled on the *sink into and never get back up* comfy couch and munched on some late night snacks while we caught up and shared our travel stories. I can never believe it is a year between our visits..

So for those of you who don't already know, my grandparents have always loved camping. They have a trailer out back (one of those huge RVs) so we basically have our own apartment in which to stay whenever we visit. When the talking was done and heads began nodding off, we braved the 90 degree humid air (at 12 at night!) to make it to the trailer and get some rest after a busy travel day =)

More stuffs to come, there's no wifi here sadly, so I shall update when I can =)

Hope all your summers are going well!