Traveling

The first day was actually all flying. I started off in Portland, where I sat around and waited an hour for Delta to fix my name, and then waited another 2 hours for my flight to actually take off. The flight from Portland to JFK was basically uneventful, except for the fact that I was first class and didn't really understand what that meant on a little tiny airplane. Apparently, I just got more snacks and drinks as well as water when I got on the plane...woo hoo. After arriving in JFK met a girl from Atlanta and we chatted for a while before she headed off to live with her friend in Brooklyn and then waited around for my 10 o'clock to Shannon. While waiting around, I stood next to a lady, and we just started talking about various things. This lead to me meeting her Irish boyfriend, who was actually a very nice man, and we went on to spend an hour and a half talking about everything from Gaelic football matches to world politics. The thing was I spent so much time talking to them because Delta took FOREVER to get the plane over to the terminal. Basically, there was a group of 200 people waiting for this plane, and that was it for the whole area, just us. The thing that was awful, is they had TVs going on and on about how flying is now so unsafe cause airplane companies are cutting back on fuel. Which made us all look up and go, wow we feel safe. But finally, around 10:40 EST we boarded flight 102 to Shannon. I was in business class for this flight and didn't have a problem realizing my amenities for this flight. The list of things is so long, from the personal TV to mouth wash, to noise drowning head phones, it was sweet. The only bad thing with this flight I think was that we sat on the tarmack for WAY too long. We finally took off at midnight, so that sucked. However, Dinner was amazing, as I had Greek Salad, Cream of Asparagus, Cous Cous, Breast of Chicken stuffed with Artichokes, and then an Ice Cream Sundae. This was all as I watched the movie 21, which was very enjoyable. I finally went to bed around 1 or so (I had just checked my map to see the time and where we were).