I'm on an airplane right now on my way back to Tampa without any internet or Glee episodes to watch so I figured I’d blog. Dear Lord has it been a hectic travel day!! As I wrote before I was in Pittsburgh for a conference. It was paid for by my university for me, three other students, and our advisor to attend a tour guide conference for two nights. It’s great that the university paid for everything but let me tell you it’s not all peaches and cream when things are “free”. My mother was always told by her mother that nothing in life is free. Somehow you have to pay for it. Well naturally, she passed it down to me and my sister and every time I get something free I always have this hope that it will be great and wonderful and feel so lucky to have been blessed with such kindness. But life is life. And that means, somehow you have to pay for it.
Of course Pittsburgh was amazing (I’ll blog about that in another post with pictures); but like I said before, the traveling was hectic and to put it simply it sucked! The university wanted us to purchase the cheapest tickets and lay-over’s were the way to go. Unfortunately, I hate lay-over’s. But I figured I could deal with that. That was until they put us on a plane the size of my living room complete with a total of 20 seats!! The propeller was right next to me sounding like a wind shield wiper cleaning a dry wind shield. For some reason I wasn’t that nervous, I actually felt relaxed because I get sleepy on planes but then the lady next to me kept saying that the turbulence wasn’t normal. OK, lets think about this. Who in their right mind would want to tell someone that?! Honestly, don’t scare people, that’s how panic and hysteria occur and then you end up sitting next to a lunatic who needs to vomit and there’s no bathroom on the plane!!! Just kidding there was a bath room on the plane but unfortunately there wasn’t a light switch so the stewardess had to turn it on for whoever needed to use it.
So right now I'm on a normal plane, the kind with three seats on each side, with my pink UPitt sweatshirt, some Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and I feel better. There’s a little turbulence and a really smelly guy two seats behind me but hey, at least I got a twenty minute nap with my mouth wide open to show everyone my seven thousand dollar mouth! Sexy, I know. Unfortunately I have to work tomorrow and help my mom with a garage sale, but I do it for love. OH and speaking of my UPitt sweatshirt that my friends will kill me for because they are our rival team, I really really wish that my school had stands in the side of the road selling $15 sweatshirts. I mean, who wants to spend $60 for a bookstore sweatshirt when you can get a replica?! They had five dollar shirts too! I was stunned and yet so jealous at the same time.
Ok, the pilot just said we’ll be landing so I'm gonna stop writing. Just to reiterate, I had a great time in Pittsburgh I really did! Just never fly Continental… ever.
