Well, it's been a crazy start to this unexpected internship. The trip Ricky and I took from Pasco, Washington to Orlando, Florida had two stops in between: Salt Lake City, Utah; and Los Angeles, California. Both were one hour stops which was quite nice considering the flights themselves were not all that long.
The flight to Salt Lake and the one to Los Angeles went admiringly well, we started late from Salt Lake but caught up within the hour to arrive on time. I managed to grab a raspberry jam filled doughnut from Krispy Kreme from the airport before that flight. Delicious.
We nearly missed the flight from Los Angeles to Orlando. The airport is under construction, incredibly confusing with no departures/arrivals TV on the level we arrived at. After going back and forth through never-ending corridors we finally found our gate 30 minutes before departure. A huge line was standing around the gate so we went to grab food at Roxy's Diner, a beautiful little diner. When we got back upstairs we realized it was the last call to board the plane so we rushed forward and ended up having another crowd behind us so we ate our burgers and fries before take-off. We managed to grab a few hours of sleep during those five hours, I personally managed to keep water from spilling on me while I slept. Once. The second try ended up with my hands falling into my laps while holding a cup of water, which spilled all over my Delta blanket, pants and socks. I'm pretty sure I scared the heck out of Ricky when I jumped to try and get off my seat without spilling more water.
The rest of the trip was rather uneventful. Until we got out of the plane. Orlando's airport has a huge hotel! It's gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous.
The flight to Salt Lake and the one to Los Angeles went admiringly well, we started late from Salt Lake but caught up within the hour to arrive on time. I managed to grab a raspberry jam filled doughnut from Krispy Kreme from the airport before that flight. Delicious.
We nearly missed the flight from Los Angeles to Orlando. The airport is under construction, incredibly confusing with no departures/arrivals TV on the level we arrived at. After going back and forth through never-ending corridors we finally found our gate 30 minutes before departure. A huge line was standing around the gate so we went to grab food at Roxy's Diner, a beautiful little diner. When we got back upstairs we realized it was the last call to board the plane so we rushed forward and ended up having another crowd behind us so we ate our burgers and fries before take-off. We managed to grab a few hours of sleep during those five hours, I personally managed to keep water from spilling on me while I slept. Once. The second try ended up with my hands falling into my laps while holding a cup of water, which spilled all over my Delta blanket, pants and socks. I'm pretty sure I scared the heck out of Ricky when I jumped to try and get off my seat without spilling more water.
The rest of the trip was rather uneventful. Until we got out of the plane. Orlando's airport has a huge hotel! It's gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous.
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| At the airport, tired but excited. |
See what I did there? I put a "tapestry filter" 'cause the photo was blurry. OOO the trickiness!
But anyway, we used the restrooms to freshen up and took the little subway thingy to the baggage claim. While in the little tram/subway we passed by huge windows where I caught my first sight of Florida's palm trees and an amazing sunrise. I'm sorry to say I was not in picture mode and lacked the presence of mind to take a photo of that. Now that I think about it, the hotel photo was <em>after</em> the tramway.
We made our way to baggage claim where Ricky's suitcase was found first, Mom's suitcase not far behind and my smaller blue one followed. I don't think I've ever gotten my suitcases this fast, it was amazing.
After that, well, we waited for an hour and a half for the Mears Shuttle Service. I grabbed my flip flops out of my suitcase, Ricky got into shorts, summer had just started for us. Ricky wanted to race in wheel chairs, I preferred to sit my butt into the chairs we found and be all lazy. At 8:15 or so the Shuttle Service finally opened and we went to buy our discounted tickets. We waited another five minutes for a car and off we went towards the Vista Way Apartments where our adventure was to continue.
But anyway, we used the restrooms to freshen up and took the little subway thingy to the baggage claim. While in the little tram/subway we passed by huge windows where I caught my first sight of Florida's palm trees and an amazing sunrise. I'm sorry to say I was not in picture mode and lacked the presence of mind to take a photo of that. Now that I think about it, the hotel photo was <em>after</em> the tramway.
We made our way to baggage claim where Ricky's suitcase was found first, Mom's suitcase not far behind and my smaller blue one followed. I don't think I've ever gotten my suitcases this fast, it was amazing.
After that, well, we waited for an hour and a half for the Mears Shuttle Service. I grabbed my flip flops out of my suitcase, Ricky got into shorts, summer had just started for us. Ricky wanted to race in wheel chairs, I preferred to sit my butt into the chairs we found and be all lazy. At 8:15 or so the Shuttle Service finally opened and we went to buy our discounted tickets. We waited another five minutes for a car and off we went towards the Vista Way Apartments where our adventure was to continue.
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