The Trip of Firsts, Part I

This is just simply too long to post all at once, which is probably why I've been putting it off, but here's the first part about my trip out to New Jersey for Morgan's Confirmation.

This trip out to New Jersey has been a trip full of firsts. It started with my first flight, a short 16 minute flight from Flint to Detroit. It was cool, except that since the trip was so short, we didn't get very high up, so it was just a wee bit bumpy and I felt a little nauseated. But Aunt Nan and I made it to Detroit vomit free and got some pizza at the airport. And the miraculous part is that Aunt Nan didn't pick all the cheese off of her pizza and go "It's too cheesy!" She actually ate the whole slice, complaint free. We had just enough time to eat and board our flight to Philadelphia, it was all going so smoothly. Too smoothly, for when we taxied up to the runway, we found out that we were being delayed by Philadelphia air traffic control and therefore got to sit on the runway for about 25 minutes. Fun fun.

Flying is amazing. I had a window seat on both flights, and while you're traveling over 500mph, when you look out the window, it so doesn't seem like you're moving that fast. There were some awesome photo opportunities that I took full advantage of.



Now, the plan was for Aunt Nan and I to land and then for Roy to land just over an hour after we did, and with claiming baggage and stuff, it would have worked out perfectly, but as is the way with air travel, it didn't work out that way. Since we were delayed, so was Roy. His plane didn't land until 8pm. So we had a couple of hours to kill and Aunt Nan and I just say and watched the planes take off and land.

We finally made it to the house around 9:30, after stopping at Subway to get some food. Watching Aunt Nan order her sub was almost painful. I should have tipped the girl or something for putting up with her order. Nick was waiting at the door for us and was very excited to see his Nana again. He hadn't seen me in a couple of years, so he didn't remember me right away, and had a bit of trouble with my name, so I stared out the weekend as Mamaw. It took a bit of persuading to get him into bed and then we got to visit with Morgan and see some of the projects that she had done at school, including a very cool pair of Looney Tunes fleece pajama pants. We ended day one visiting with Euleasia and Roy before everyone crashed.