First and foremost, I apologize for not posting an update yesterday
as I was extremely exhausted and passed out as soon as our crew was
dismissed.
Yesterday my flight left at six in the morning
and I had two layovers. I was flying from Charleston to New York City to
LaGaurdia airport. Then from LaGuardia I was flying to D.C. to catch my
connecting flight to Seattle. My flight from NYC to DC got delayed
about 40 minutes and that really threw me for a spin. I landed in D.C.
with literally just ten minutes to get off of my current plane in order
to make the next one. As much as I hate to admit this, I literally took off my flip flops and bolted through Washington Dulles airport because Lord knows it is so difficult to run in them.
I
made it to my connecting flight as the last few people was boarding and
was definitely winded. Thankfully I was only going from concourse D to C
so it wasn't THAT far of a run. As I got on to the plane to Seattle, I
attempted to find my seat and catch up on some sleep that was much
needed since I didn't sleep that well the night before my first flight. I
ended up passing out as soon as I was able to get comfortable and woke
up with about three hours left in my flight. I then realized that I
needed to use the restroom so I wrestled my way into the aisle and a
lady that was in front of me caught the attention of my letters. She
started talking to me about how her daughter goes to Virginia Tech, how
she is a Zeta, and how he's dating a Pike, which she got confused with
my letters since they are only a one letter difference. She then
preceded to tell me how it's changed her daughters life and how it's the
best thing she has ever done.
As I made my way back to my
seat after using the lavatory, the guy sitting next to me turns around
and asks if I enjoy "those Pi Kapps," and I quickly jump to how it is
easily one of the greatest decisions of my life and how much I enjoy it.
He then precedes to tell me he is a Pi Kapp from Virginia Tech! I
couldn't believe that I was really sitting beside a Pi Kapp on my plane
ride to the Journey of Hope. So then I inform him that the JOH is what
I'm flying out to Seattle for and his eyes lit up and he was asking me a
few questions about it. Then we talked a little more about Pi Kapp
before I decided to watch Mean Girls until we landed.
Once I arrived safely in Seattle I made my way to baggage claim
to find out that due to the rush to make my connecting flight that my
luggage did not make it to Seattle. I then had it addressed to my hotel
to arrive later that evening on the next flight to Seattle. When I was
picked up I went straight to the hotel with my crew members and we put
our stuff away and went to dinner at a fabulous place called Sport. It's
got some extremely great sports memorabilia from basketballs signed and
baseballs autographed to jerseys and a ton of other things. We all had
dinner and briefed on a few things before being released for free time.
Once we got back to the hotel I informed the front desk of my
late bag arrival and told them to call me when it arrived. I then went
up to my room about seven in the evening here and passed out before I
hit the pillow. I woke up around three in the morning to find that I had
not received a call about my bag so I went downstairs and it still
hadn't arrived. I went back to bed and sure enough received the call about thirty minutes later.
Once the first full day got started we went over policies and
procedures, rules, regulations, and a bunch of other information about
safety for the trip. We broke for lunch and went to this place called
Bruno's after all the programming for dinner. It's an Italian and
Mexican restaurant that was absolutely fantastic. We went to the
original Starbucks on Pike Place and also walked around downtown Seattle
and was able to see all the shops like H&M, Tiffany & Co.,
Nordstrom, a Nike store, etc. After that we all decided to catch The
Avengers since there was so much hype and none of us had seen it.
Tomorrow we begin CPR training and it's about a five hour class.
The
time change is hard to get used to. I want to call a bunch of friends
and talk to them about my first full day but it's already tomorrow back
home. Weird. I'm still getting used to not constantly having my keys on
my side since they're one of the three objects I generally never lose.
I'm extremely thankful that we're in a hotel right now though because I
know these days are limited.
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