We arrived at the airport with about 3 hours until my flight. I went and checked in my bags. The first bag weighed 50.0 pounds (limit is 50), the second 53.8. Thankfully they let me take without an extra charge. Then we all went up to the terminal, and exchanged some Hong Kong and Chinese currency. After exchanging money, the three of us sat in the terminal and talked for a while because I had plenty of time before my flight. With about 2 hours left until take off I decided to say my final good byes and go through security. My mom had scouted the best line, so we walked down to it, and hugged goodbye. We then parted ways with promises of keeping in touch. Going security was very fast, and I even “got” to go through the new body scanner. On the other side I found my gate and got a soda to drink. Before leaving I called Courtney and bought a lottery tickets, which I won $1 on, to bad I can’t cash it in for a long time.
Boarding was painless, and I got lucky and got one of the last spaces in the overhead bin even though the flight was completely full. After everyone was loaded we taxied to a spot to de-ice the plane it was funny to see the plane shaped wet marks on the tarmak. We had a smooth take off and soon were flying over the scenice western Minnesota and South Dakota landscape. The flight had wifi for purchase, but I didn’t want to pay for it. It did however provide access to delta.com, which was nice because I could track the plane’s position, and send messages to people by attaching a message to my itinerary which I could send to them.
Although the view of South Dakota may not have been great, when we started over the mountains the view got much better. The mountains looked very cool from the air, and I took some pictures, which I will post. I spotted Missoula, and when we got closer to Seattle I got a very cool view of Mt. Rainier. Unfortunately however I wasn’t able to see the Seattle skyline.
After landing in Seattle, I got off the plane and luckily my next plane was only 2 gates away. Seattle’s airport had the luxury of free wifi, so I checked my email and Facebook and chatted with Courtney and my mom. I only had about 45 minutes until boarding, and didn’t want to journey to another terminal of the airport so I was limited for food options. I ended up getting a burger and fries. I took advantage of my last access to US cell phone service and texted my mom sister and Courtney, and called Courtney one last time. Then I boarded the plane which was even easier than it was in Minneapolis.
I was still on the wrong side of the plane, so after take off I couldn’t see the skyline, and the entire way along the coast of Canada and Alaska all I could see was water, but the view of the mountains was even cooler on this journey.
Currently, I am somewhere between Alaska and Russia (but can see neither). I have watched Wall Street, and am currently watching Salt on the media player, as well as playing some games and watching some episodes of some TV shows. The media player is pretty cool. I can track details about my flight such as altitude, speed, and the outside temperature. As well as entertain myself with other things. Other that that I have slept some, read some, and been served the some soda, peanuts, and a meal that had some shrimp salad, a brownie, a beef noodle thing, and some other stuff (picture included). Right now I am eating one more meal, an ice cream sandwich and a Coca-Cola. I still have 4.5 hours left in my flight and the outside temperature is -75 F. Over halfway there!
Oh also my mom figured out that my due to my flights, I will have 19 hours of sunlight today. Jet lag here I come.
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