Airports? Boring Blog entry

(Lianna) 

So we all got to the airport at 4 am… or should I say most of us got there at 4 am. I won’t name the late comer (I’ll give you a hint… he’s blonde). We were all extremely tired and the fact that we would soon be in CHINA hadn’t really kicked in yet. So we got on our plane and fell asleep… it was long. Unfortunately however, none of us slept very long. So Allison, Mark, and I played cards including an epic, hour-long, game of war. Alex, who chose to be separated by the aisle from us watched TV and listened to his ipod and did other such things. That flight was pretty bad: cramped, long, etc. First casualty of the trip? Allison left Twilight on the plane, good thing she wasn’t upset about it.

We got into San Francisco at 10am-ish. We found our gate, which happened to be 12 million miles away from the one we came into. Then we went by twos to get food. We could tell the plane was HUGE, but the gate was pretty empty. Bad sign about the economy? You could say that… but GREAT sign for us… I’ll skip the boring airport time.

We got on the plane and there was absolutely no one on it. Everyone on the plane, except those with babies and small children, got a whole row for themselves! Mark, Alex, and I each chose rows with 4 seats, which made seeping pretty comfortable (well, as comfortable as sleeping on a plane can be). Alex wanted to build a fort in his row, but he didn’t end up doing it, he was out for most of the flight. The flight attendants were SO nice and helpful and delightful and happy, unlike the mean ones going to San Francisco. We had asked for a meal to be left for mark if he was asleep and the flight attendants were so amazing that he got offered the same meal THREE times!! The food was actually pretty good for airline food. We had the choice of Chinese style chicken and rice or meatloaf, then they gave us Chinese noodles (very much like ramen noodles). Then for the “light snack” prior to landing we could have a soggy turkey sandwich or disgusting looking noodles… but the first two meals were good. The international flight, while 14 hours long was actually a pretty pleasant experience. We are all hoping that the flight going home will be just as good.

O and there were lots of really cute Asian babies on our plane, they amused us. One of the little boys had shoes that flashed bright colors! It was so exciting! You will see a trend in our blogs that we like blinking things, specifically blinking shoes. So, long story short… because I don’t know how I managed to make this blog about airplanes this long… we got here safe and, well… exhausted.