Ernestine was our Flight Attendant on our first flight of the trip. She kept us laughing the whole way from Greensboro to Washington, DC. Her best line came as we were taxiing out to the runway. We had been delayed a bit and so the pilot was obviously in a hurry to get us off the ground, so he was rolling out pretty fast, and she stumbled walking back to check on all the passengers. At one point, after a pretty hard right turn, she looked at us and said, “He’s trying to kill me.” Not very comforting words from the Flight Attendant just before take-off.

We’re in Kansas City, MO, and we’re going to bed. Much to blog about in the morning.

We’re sitting on the runway about to take off. To this point I took us to the wrong airline ticket counter, we had our boarding passes checked by a very large man who is celebrating a birthday tomorrow, and our pilot blanked out when telling us what flight we were on. “Welcome aboard United Flight…. uhhhh …. 7120.” Seriously, I wouldn’t make this stuff up. We’re also holding because of bad weather in Washington. Hope we make our connecting flight.

Oh, the stories we’ll tell after this trip. Follow our progress here and over at the 704 blog…

(Umm. If you’re curious, I did just post this blog from INSIDE the plane using a incredibly complex system of cell phone, bluetooth connectivity NOT called an iPhone.)