good to hear news from everyone...almost everyone. I am at work right now as well, had a busy last couple of days. Flew to Indy Monday night. We sat in the terminal with the plane waiting for us at the gate for 30 minutes after the scheduled take-off time, due to, quote from guy at counter, "air traffic." aka philly airport not being organized. Once all 12 passengers got on the plane, it was a bigger one than necessary with approx. 100 seats so everyone got to spread out. it was noticably cold in the plane. sitting sitting sitting at the gate with no movement. Finally the captain came on and said that one of the engines wasn't starting through his prompts from inside the cockpit, but it's not a danger, they just need to have machines start the engine from the outside, which don't happen to be available at this moment. After a few minutes we hear a roar and the engines all start. we eventually start taxiing, but have to wait another 15 minutes on the tarmac in the "penalty box" as it is called, to let the engine heat up enough so we can fly. plus, only once the engines are heated up does the cabin get heat, so it would have gotten quite cold in there at 10,000 ft.

we got in 1 hour late to indy, so it wasn't so bad. still annoying though. luckily Liz, my coworker was there with sushi that she got for me at our favorite restaurant.
it's always something when flying.
the flight back the next night made up for it though: arrived in philly early, plus some exciting bumps going through the clouds during descent.

the week should quiet down a bit more now. no more trips till feb. 6th when we go back to Indy for our 8th session. And sushi!

C, how is the raisen bran working? Dad, how is your non-smoking doing? JP, I keep meaning to call you and suck for not doing so.

love to all,
H
- posted by H @ 1/25/2006 02:50:00 PM