Leaving on a Jet Plane...

A JetBlue jet plane to be exact...

The Flight:

-We boarded the plane and The Nice Man With Stinky Breath sitting in the aisle seat of our Row very kindly helped Miss Emily place her bag in the overhead compartment.

-We seated ourselves- Em by the window and myself in the middle- popped in our headphones, looked at each other as if to say "well... here goes..."

-I turned to Em several times through the first minutes on the plane and sang "LIFE IS A HIGHWAY... I WANNA RIDE IT... ALL NIGHT LONG..." to her.

It is, afterall, our OFFICIAL song of moving. LOL

-The plane took off and we tried to settle in with our wonderful little individual headrest screens. However, as we quickly came to find out, and the flight crew (slighlty less quickly acknowledged) the regular channels were not working.

Fearing we would be doomed to watch the awful, boring in-flight station play the same commercials and blah-blah-blah interviews for five whole hours, we were relieved when Mr. Metro Flight Attendant said that everyone would be able to view the Fox First Look movies... for FREE! YAYYYY!!!!

-We decided to watch Once. (The same movie of course so we could comment to each other)

I won't take the time to go into the movie, let's just say it was a slow indy film, with a lot of heart and some music that I REALLY enjoyed. I recomend it to those who like music+indy films. I hope to download some songs as soon as the energy to do such things arrives.

Oh and of course it made my teary eyed at the end as anything heart-warming and romantical does. (What a sap.)

-Em seemed to fall asleep toward the end of the movie, which made me a bit sad because I really liked the end and wanted to chat about it.

-The Nice Man With Stinky Breath slept through most of the flight clutching a pillow that he took from the plane, not using it AS a pillow... yet preventing other passengers (ahem.. us) from doing so. LOL.

From time to time he turned in my direction breathing his sleepy, I-ate-before-the-flight breath on me... which is how he earned his rep.

-We fell asleep in fragments and half-snoozes, on and off throughout the flight but neither of us slept very well... and it made me feel rather fidgety and cranky as flights like that tend to do.

However, I did very much enjoy watching where we were on the Google Map channel... that should be in EVERY flight. Seriously.

-THE COOL/SCARY item of note for this flight: over most/all of Kansas we were flying above (and sometimes a bit too close for comfort to) some AMAZING thunder storms.

By thunder storms I mean BEAUTIFUL displays of lightning.

I thought that what we saw during my stay in Paso was beautiful, but seeing eletricity shooting through the sky, illuminating clouds from within, and sparking in amazing patterns... from IN the AIR!?!

Absolutely BREATHTAKING. (I only WISH I could have taken pictures, but I doubt it would have done it justice.)

-We were a little frightened to think that we were so close to such power. We reassured ourselves that all was safe, afterall, if the pilots were confident doing such things, they must:

a-know better than us that there is no danger
b-do this all the time
c-be crazy daredevils who dance a tempting tango with fate
d-only a and b

We believed "d" to be the correct answer, otherwise... man, we were lucky.

-The flight was mainly smooth, with a few, fairly rough, bouts of grab-onto-each-other turbulence, and a couple hold-onto-the-armrest shakes, mostly over the Ohio area... which seemed like it took FOR-EV-ER to fly over... ask Em, she'll tell ya. :)

-We began to approach Pennsylvania as the sun was reaching the east. (Or rather, we were approaching the sun... while the earth was turning... and other sciency stuff about rotations and coriolos force...? hehehe)

It was another stunningly beautiful sight to see. It made the five hours of stuffy air and neighbors breathing on you more bearable.

-As we approached NY I snapped a shot of my First East Coast Sunrise...

-We were more than glad to land and the closer we got the more I kept thinking... "OMG!!!! NEW YORK!!!!!" as I sang Frank Sinatra in my head.

-We had a super smooth landing and waited through my LEAST favorite part of any flight. (being TRAPPED, so close to being free, in the creepy tube that is a plane while everyone pushes and shoves and almost drops bags on you. Argh...)

-We finally deplaned and took our first steps into NY and our new adventure!!!



So far we are doing well. Doing our best to stay cool and keep focused on the tasks at hand: find jobs! find a home!

House hunting, job hunting and craiglisting are in FULL effect, with only a few fun little trips here and there. I promise you all, we are not being the crazy NYC party girls you see on tv... we are gettin it done, without wearing ourselves too far out... after all, it's about balance.

Once again... MORE TO COME! Next time will be the LONG trip into and the first sights of... The City!

xoxoxo!!!

<3 Lo