This past week has been really relaxing. I love the times where I don't have to do anything. I spend time with Chris, Moe and other friends and just relax. So nice!! I will miss them all. At least I don't have to sleep on Steven's couch now. No, it was fun. It is sad I will not be eating my Ceasar Salads anymore from Flemmings.... 
My family at dinner after my recital.
Chris and me at the Zoo with the baby and mama elephant.
The Fantastic Mr. Fox Party.
Fab girls in the Red Brick Mansion.
So, I think you all should hear about my airplanes...Utah to Denver:
It was alright, nothing too out of the ordinary. I was kinda worried because I was C42 on SW, but Fred made it into the overhead easily, thankfully. So, we are going to land and the pilot says that there will be some turbulence. When isn't there? Well, this is the worst turbulence I have ever been in. We free fell for a couple hundred feet. It was enough of a drop to make people scream. While we were falling, we were thrown to the right really hard. It looked liked the people in the Disneyland Sing-along song video when they ride Star Tours (if you have seen it, you know what I mean). After it was over, the captain apologized for it. Nice thought. It was fun, pretty intense but cool.
It was alright, nothing too out of the ordinary. I was kinda worried because I was C42 on SW, but Fred made it into the overhead easily, thankfully. So, we are going to land and the pilot says that there will be some turbulence. When isn't there? Well, this is the worst turbulence I have ever been in. We free fell for a couple hundred feet. It was enough of a drop to make people scream. While we were falling, we were thrown to the right really hard. It looked liked the people in the Disneyland Sing-along song video when they ride Star Tours (if you have seen it, you know what I mean). After it was over, the captain apologized for it. Nice thought. It was fun, pretty intense but cool.
Denver to Orlando:
I bored the airplane not really focusing because I just want to land. I overhear some people talking and, as custom, I start dropping some eaves. Then I hear a lady say, "I hope Seattle is not as rainy as everyone says it is." I press the call button (the first time I have EVER pressed it). To the flight attendant "Where is this flight going?" "It is going to Seattle then to San Francisco." "I am on the WRONG flight?!" I instantly get off the airplane. I boarded the wrong plane. Now what is wrong with this scenario? When I was waiting in line, they did the random people check. They checked my I.D. and an old lady standing next to me with a walker. We are probably the two least dangerous people on the face of the planet. Secondly, how did my ticket go through? All this stuff about security and things, BOGUS. I cheated the system, somehow...kinda like how when in the corn maze, I ended up outside of the maze no longer in corn... don't know how that happens.
So I wait around for my flight to Orlando. Normal flight. Going to be four hours. We will land at 7:30P Boring, played lot's of word games in a book I stole from Chris...(sorry I will buy you a new one). Then the captain comes on and says that there are a lot of storm systems over Orlando and torndaos in the nearby area so we are going to hold in the air. If it comes to it, we will have to land in West Palms or Ft. Lauderdale. Okay... why does this always happen to me. Because we would descend at any time, we all needed to be in our "descending" positions. Seats upright, tables up, electronics up. Also, the captain says, "Parents, if you have children who get frightened easily, you might want to close the window because there will be a lot of lightning and the lazer show might scare several people." Okay... that is not something we want to hear. Since it is going to Orlando, you hear lot's of windows being shut. An hour rolls by. Captain comes on again. Control says that in about twenty minutes we will be able to land if the storms move because there is a 25 mile gap coming up in the systems. So hang on tight and we will land soon, but we still might have to land somewhere else if we can't make it in time. Forty minutes later, "We have been cleared to land." A flight attendant stands up to go back to her seat in the front and make sure everything is alright. Halfway down the isle, the captain comes on, "Brace yourself." Just then, you see the flight attendant go flying forward and the lights go out. The airplane starts shaking like nothing I have experienced and people start screaming. All of a sudden you hear this loud crashes and I realize that the overhead compartments have been jolted open because of all the turbulence. We finally get through the storm and the captain comes on and apologizes for what happened. You'll never guess...we flew through a system of TORNADOS!!! The result reminded me of the Twilight Zone where the man thinks there is something on the wing mixed with the Day After Tomorrow. So, we land smoothly. Evereyone starts clapping and shouting hooray. Reminder, we have been "entertainmentless" for a LONG time. My back was hurting...It is now 9:30P. We start taxing and then stop. Captain comes on again, "Because so many planes were not able to take off, there is no spot for us at the tarmack (sp?) so we are going to have to wait out. 10:00P we finally make it to the gate. I go to my MEARS shuttle. I wait until 11:00P to be picked up by the shuttle. Meanwhile, people have come after me and purchased last minute tickets and leave before me. Whatevs. I get on the shuttle full of 9 people and I am the last stop. 12:00A comes by and I am at the hotel. I have to wake up at 6:00A to go to Vista Way Apartments.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME AND FLYING!!!!!!!!!
Today, April 26, 2010
I met some really cool peeps and have hit it off which is great. I have been kind of worried because I was leaving the comfort of Provo and my close friends. It has been a blessing I have been laughing all day. I still don't know where I am working. I am living in a nice apartment with four guys and I have a roommate (which I havent had in three years...) so that is kinda new to me, but they are all cool and all from BYU (is that good or bad? We'll see). Nothing really exciting happened today other than going to Wal-mart and passing Publix and remembering all the free cookies I got from there! Orlando is all about green and so the Wal-mart every couple of minutes will dim the lights. This old lady came up to me and asked if she was going blind because the lights got dark. How cute??
Tomorrow is the day I find out where I am working, but I don't start work until Wednesday. At least I will have one more day to just relax.
Want to know the thing that I forgot?? Towels... I even went to Wal-mart but I told myself, I brought both my towels...nope.
Love peace and oranges!Blakester
