Flight to Rome

Flight

8:45 am Seattle

Just leaving Seattle and am currently on the plane. I am very excited to be going to Rome, although feeling the cabin pressurize is not the most comfortable feeling. We are first headed toward Philadelphia and we will have a one hour layover. A funny event that occurred to me this morning is that I called my boss from Alaska Airlines to let him know I was in SeaTac since he is there usually from 5 a.m. till 6 p.m. and I wanted to say hello. However, I forgot that today was Sunday and his day off(Lack of sleep does that to you). So I woke him up and he wasn’t to happy getting a call that early in the day.

The group I met up with to go to Rome is a great group and are all really fun. This is a good first impression from everyone. I am including some pictures of them and me. I will write more during the flight as things change.

On the second the plane It’s 7:45 p.m. Seattle time and we left at 8:45 a.m. And I gotta say I’m getting a bit tired of the whole sitting thing. I do however, have a very good plane buddy. Her name is Sarah Lee and she is a great conversationalist. I think we talked for nearly the whole plane ride and only now since every one is asleep (except me) have we stopped. It has really made the plan ride a lot shorter even though it’s still a long flight.

I think its really funny how they always sell things on the Skymall magazines that are completely useless and would never sell if you weren’t flying with nothing to do but look at useless items and make believe that you need them. For example the Shoulder Dolly, yes its cool idea but unless your a mover how often are you really going to be moving washing machines. You would at most get one good use and then it would just turn into some random belts you have in your garage. Also the Neck Pro Traction Device, you are suppose to put your head in this harness you hang on your door to “significantly reduce neck pain”. Not only would you look weird if any one saw you using it but would be awkward to explain and demo to anyone with there head on straight. You know the guy in that picture was probably rolling on the floor laughing after they took that photo. And how can we forget the SkyRest, a huge blue pillow that would take up your entire fold down tray and make you look like nut. At least the guy looks peaceful. Also I found a picture of Big Foot and a sign to tell dogs not to poop, which I’m adding below. As you can see plane ride is fairly long and I’ve had to resort to reading SkyMall which is never a good thing. We have three more hours to go, so I’ll see what I can do until then.

4:30 Seattle Time 7:30 am Rome time

We are just arriving to Rome and looking out the window of our seats its finally setting in that we are actually here! Although I’m hungry, sleep deprived and got to the point where I was actually reading the SkyMall magazine. It’s all worth it, to touch down on the other side of the world with a whole different culture and a brand new experience.