Notes from the Observation Deck

So actually I'm in an airport.

At a gate.

Still 2 hours early.

I waited in line in the bathroom, found food, changed concourses and still found my gate so early they were still boarding the flight that takes off before mine. Oh and I even made a random impulse stop to buy orange Fanta.

Mmmm. Fanta.

I brought my laptop for times such as these and paid a monthly subscription to airport wireless so I can use it on all my ridiculously long layovers on this flight.

Someone needs to tell the girl across from me that her body is not fit enough to show that much leg or stomach. Seriously.

So I was a little afraid my flight here (the first of four flights for the day) would be terrible because this family with a 5 year old and a 2 year old who had never flown before sat in my row and a 4 month old baby was in the seat right in front of me. Surprisingly all three kids did absolute amazing, and they were all adorable.

There's a middle aged overweight woman to my left who I'm pretty sure is two thirds of the way down her contact list on her cell phone now. It's possible that she's not that far since occasionally people she hasn't made it to yet (but was allegedly going to) interrupt current conversations. Perhaps the most amusing part of her though is that not only does she have a pair of glasses tucked neatly into her shortly cropped blonde hair but she's also wearing a second pair of dark rims held low on her nose with a strand of pearls around her neck. The ensemble would not be complete without her periwinkle velour pants, shirt and jacket accented with baby blue butterfly earrings the size of walnuts that glitter whenever the light catches them.

I decided her conversations weren't all that intriguing, however, and put on my headphones (or is in more accurate since they're earbuds?) to listen to the Metro Station album I downloaded last night before I left. Last night I googled "california lyrics" for fun (don't ask, I was trying to stay up till it was time to leave for my flight) and found their song California so downloaded the whole album. They sound a little like Relient K. I feel like this song is me and Brian.

What do you say we leave for California
If we drive all night we can make it by the morning
And no one has to know if we decide to go
What do you say we leave for California

If we leave our friends then we can be together
We can leave this town if only for the weather
I could drive and you could sleep
While the radio collides to the sound of our heartbeats

Really though, the whole album is pretty good. You should check it out.

Oh yeah, and I almost slept through my first flight this morning. I took what was supposed to be an hour and a half nap but my alarm didn't go off and my roommate (also my ride) had accidentally set hers to 4pm instead of 4am. So she woke me up at 4:45 and was like "Are we going???" I had wanted to leave by 4:30. It's cool though, I made it.

I suppose that's all for now.

Until I find more freaks.

:)