The traveling is underway.

Ad and I left Wash MO around 9am on Thursday to head for the airport.  We probably should have left a little bit earlier but since we had a connection in Chicago we considered it a domestic flight.  That means you should only get there an hour before your flight instead of two for international.  Doesn't matter we made it on the plane, to Chicago O'Hare (not many power outlets there) and onto our flight headed to London.  That is where we sat for about an extra 45 minutes while cargo and standby passengers where being loaded.  


I don't mind sitting in coach, maybe that is because I haven't sat in first class. Yet if I did sit in first class I won't have the opportunity to walk down the isle to the back of the plane and people watch.  First class is especially fun for me to watch.  You can almost always count on at least one married women with a huge rock that just happens to be talking on the phone or waving to someone showing it off.  Then there is the man who is completely absorbed in a newspaper or book, usually older while the younger generations are typing/talking/video chatting on devices that I have only seen in skymall magazine.  It is always an entertaining start to a flight and sometimes a conversation started with the person sitting next to you.


On the flight to London it wasn't near as bad as I expected it to be.  The seats are the same size as normal flights just a lot more of them and you have your own personal TV in the seat back in front of you.  I didn't watch anything except the flight tracker because I spend the flight sleeping.  This made it go by very quickly with one exception, the temperature.  Here is what I wrote about it last night while on the plane.


I am surprised how loud the plane is in general.  I haven't been listening to my iPod because I have to turn the volume all the way up to hear it and don't want to go deaf.  For me I would much rather her the monotonous droning of the engines than the little children screaming in the rows behind us (yes kids were screaming).  The food service was wasn't terrible either, not fantastic but not bad.  The flight attendants do keep you well hydrated, it seemed like every 10 minutes they were asking if you needed another beverage in seat 36D, I couldn't drink my hot tea fast enough.  The lady next to me wasn't much of a beverage drinker either, she wasn't very talkative at all.  I was initially nervous about keeping bumping into her thigh but now I don't care, it is in my seat.  Then I realized there is a hidden benefit to sitting that close to someone...warmth.  Additionally I was thankful that I was not out in the -59 degree F air at 3


The flight ended and we took the London Express to our hotel.  It was only 10-am meaning check in is at 2.  We left our luggage at the hotel and went to explore the city on foot without a plan, without a map (mistake), and without pounds.  More to come on how the day ended up.  We are going somewhere to eat dinner.


Meg