The Long Overdue Vacation: Day 1…Sit Around and Wait
Day 1 was entirely travel. Still, there are some interesting/boring notes to share. This post was written mid-flight and is being posted after the fact. We have since arrived safely in Barcelona and going through some serious jetlag. The day’s not over yet, so I’ll recap the day later tonight.
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I’m writing this blog post on our flight. it just hit midnight EST, and we’re about two hours from landing in Barcelona, where it will be about 7:30 in the morning. Inflight movies were that one where Vince Vaughn is Santa Claus’ brother or something and Mamma Mia. I opted not to view either. Before I go further, let’s start from the beginning:
Day 1 has been all travel. Nothing eventful picking up our rental car. Ezeibe decided to bring two suitcases, which I’m sure will probably come back to haunt us when we fly to Paris.
I shouldn’t be surprised, but we hit some annoying random construction traffic on I-84 on our way to the airport. Fun nugget of information: Alan has incredible road rage.
The Delta terminal was pretty chaotic. Looked like holiday traveling is starting pretty early this year. Even though I checked in the night before, there was a good half hour queue to drop off your bags. Security, however, went very quickly. So it evened out.
Now we’re on this flight. Ezeibe is next to me. We’ve entertained ourselves through an exciting game of Geography trivia on his phone and Checkers over our Zunes. I won both.
Alan is a few rows ahead of us in the emergency exit row due to his vertical handicap. While he stressed about not being able to sleep on the plane, it was all bullshit. He’s getting more sleep than either Ezeibe or I.
I downloaded the Pimsleur Quick and Easy Spanish audio and have been trying to memorize basic Spanish phrases. I’m sure it will be futile due to the fact that Barcelona speaks Catalan. My faith in Ezeibe and Alan’s Spanish proficiency kind of went out the window when they couldn’t decide how to say “Go” or “Left.”