Our flight was scheduled to leave at 4pm on Saturday the 9th. I attended my graduation ceremony at 1:30pm that same day.... Luckily, I was able to walk across the stage and straight out the door with my family who took me straight to the airport (I hope nobody noticed). We left at 2:30pm and got to the airport before 3pm. There were no lines and I was at the gate in no time. As I'm walking to the gate, I see Princess Emily Utz having her toenails painted and getting ready to have a massage. For those of you that know her...I'm sure you are saying, of course! Turns out the massage was terrible and left her in pain. I think she learned her lesson about airport spas!! Her toes look good, though.
We sat in RDU awaiting our flight when I noticed the flight across from us was headed to Boston. I saw some local sports reporters waiting and I contemplated tagging along with them... If you don't know why, you probably don't live in Raleigh or are living under a rock (or are Jessi Kelly). I did continue on my way to Europe...
After a short flight to JFK in New York, we had about 2 hours until our international flight. The first thing we learned is JFK is the hottest airport on the planet. Second, people in JFK are concerned about the Swine Flu... or SARS. Either way, the people we saw wearing masks was quite comical to us (but it did make me feel a little sick). We ate a quick dinner at "Chili's." I use quotes because this was not like a normal Chili's. The salsa was clearly just a can of Picante. Before we boarded, Utz tried to work her magic to get us an upgrade on the plane. She did! We could fly first clas for only $700...each! Obviously we stayed with our original seats.
The flight to Edinburgh was about 7 hours. Em and I had the two seats closest to the aisle (not the window). We kept hoping nobody would come sit there and with every person that walked by, we feared they would be sitting with us! An older, bigger, sneazing man starting coming down the aisle and without having to look at each other or say anything, we both thought "Oh pleaseeeee not him!" We were lucky to sit with a girl who goes to school in Virginia but is from Scotland. I couldn't understand half of what she was saying so I did a lot of nodding. Across the aisle from us was a sweet lady who had been on "holiday" (That's how we say vacation over here...hence, the movie "The Holiday." Don't get me started on how annoying Cameron Diaz is in that movie...) in the Carribean. She talked to us about Edinburgh and the best way to get to the Hostel and even gave us money for the bus when we left the plane. It was only 1 pound 20 pence or as Emily would say, $1.20! We did have the individual tv's at each seat and watched The Office, Friends, and listened to music. The coolest thing was you could track our flight and they showed a map of exactly where we were flying! After a few hours, I fell asleep and Em continued to track our flight for the next few hours.... Read her blog to hear more about the flight. She has lots of thoughts on it. We arrived at 8 am (3 am to those back in America the beautiful).
After all of this (and more), we finally landed! It took a little bit of work but we found the right bus. Apparently they can only come within a 10 minute walk of the Hostel (not really but it seemed that way). We dragged our suitcases all the way through the town and miles (maybe 3/4 of a mile) of construction. Edinburgh is officially the road construction capital of the world! We finally made it to the Hostel about 9:30 am.
We sat in RDU awaiting our flight when I noticed the flight across from us was headed to Boston. I saw some local sports reporters waiting and I contemplated tagging along with them... If you don't know why, you probably don't live in Raleigh or are living under a rock (or are Jessi Kelly). I did continue on my way to Europe...
After a short flight to JFK in New York, we had about 2 hours until our international flight. The first thing we learned is JFK is the hottest airport on the planet. Second, people in JFK are concerned about the Swine Flu... or SARS. Either way, the people we saw wearing masks was quite comical to us (but it did make me feel a little sick). We ate a quick dinner at "Chili's." I use quotes because this was not like a normal Chili's. The salsa was clearly just a can of Picante. Before we boarded, Utz tried to work her magic to get us an upgrade on the plane. She did! We could fly first clas for only $700...each! Obviously we stayed with our original seats.
The flight to Edinburgh was about 7 hours. Em and I had the two seats closest to the aisle (not the window). We kept hoping nobody would come sit there and with every person that walked by, we feared they would be sitting with us! An older, bigger, sneazing man starting coming down the aisle and without having to look at each other or say anything, we both thought "Oh pleaseeeee not him!" We were lucky to sit with a girl who goes to school in Virginia but is from Scotland. I couldn't understand half of what she was saying so I did a lot of nodding. Across the aisle from us was a sweet lady who had been on "holiday" (That's how we say vacation over here...hence, the movie "The Holiday." Don't get me started on how annoying Cameron Diaz is in that movie...) in the Carribean. She talked to us about Edinburgh and the best way to get to the Hostel and even gave us money for the bus when we left the plane. It was only 1 pound 20 pence or as Emily would say, $1.20! We did have the individual tv's at each seat and watched The Office, Friends, and listened to music. The coolest thing was you could track our flight and they showed a map of exactly where we were flying! After a few hours, I fell asleep and Em continued to track our flight for the next few hours.... Read her blog to hear more about the flight. She has lots of thoughts on it. We arrived at 8 am (3 am to those back in America the beautiful).
After all of this (and more), we finally landed! It took a little bit of work but we found the right bus. Apparently they can only come within a 10 minute walk of the Hostel (not really but it seemed that way). We dragged our suitcases all the way through the town and miles (maybe 3/4 of a mile) of construction. Edinburgh is officially the road construction capital of the world! We finally made it to the Hostel about 9:30 am.
Here we are outside of the airport...waiting for the bus:
sanks for the shout out Em :) love you and glad that you're in Edinburgh!
ReplyDeleteI'm really glad to read that your hilarity translates into blog-talk. It's kind of surreal for me Em being on the other side of this travel blog thing..I don't know how I feel about it(well actually that is a lie, I don't like it one bit..I am jealous of your "holiday"-those silly Europeans!) Love you Bem can't wait to hear more about your adventures you convert to the blog world you.
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