Day One - May 5th, 2008

I started this day at 2:50am. I got up and showered and dried my hair so I could lay on it and lean against it without it hurting. We left the house at 4:20am to head to the airport. Check in wasn't busy, but we ended up swapping some of my stuff into Mom's bad so we'd both be under the weight limit. We actually made it so both suitcases were 50.5 lbs! I was impressed. Checked in and handed off our suitcases and headed to security. That was only a few minutes but my belt set off the alarm, which was an easily solved problem. We stopped at Starbucks and got juice and scones before heading up to our gate. We only sat at the gate for about 30 minutes before boarding. I had window and Mom was next in and a guy named Matthew sat in the aisle seat. Mom made friends with him and I read most of the way. Taking off was fine but landing was a whole different story. I was nearly sick! Yuck.

Once on the ground my stomach settled quite a bit. We de-planed and wandered towards our next gate at Houston International. We stopped in Borders and I got a book and Mom and I got there crossword/word search books. They are cool. They mostly confuse Mom. We found a nice quiet corner near our gate and set up shop. I tried to get online but I guess you have to pay a fee to access their Wi-Fi. Rude! So we gave up on that and just chilled for a while. We ate lunch at a Texan BBQ place in the airport. Yum! I loved it, but it was a bit to hot for Mom's taste. After eating I tried to sleep on the floor for a while which was incredibly uncomfortable. We checked in at our gate about 3:15 and started boarding about 3:35pm. We boarded just after the first class and Elite customers since we were at the back of the plane. Thank goodness the plane wasn't full or our flight would have been awful. I stayed in the two seats next to the window and Mom moved over to a set of three empty seats in the middle, so she could lay down across all three seats.

We took off really quickly and my stomach stayed mostly settled. I did end up drinking quite a lot of ginger ale to keep my stomach happy. They served us beverages and peanuts not long after taking off and dinner followed not long after drinks. Then I just watched movies and tried to read and then tried to sleep. They had an interactive map that showed the progress of the flight and I spent alot of time watching that. The flight was so it made sleeping not very much fun, but I did get some. An hour of so before landing they served us fruit and a croissant for breakfast. And that takes us into Day Two since we spent all of Day One traveling.