Cruise 2009, part I
July 23-24
Lots to get the drift of up on, after roughly 32 hours of action, starting at 4AM in Los Angeles. LA to Philly flight… what, like I’m theorized to remember that? In the Philly airport for 4 dull hours, enlivened by another sighting of the Lego Liberty Bell and linner at that winebar station that ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
dark_of_night and I visited on some other trip I can't remember; it rates 4 stars in the Michelin Guide compared to the other options like Chik-Fil-A and BK. We killed more interval by walking through all of the terminals… possibly this should be called training for our walking to come.
We were tickled by two snippets of overheard discussion in the airports. At LAX in the morning, a teenage daughter was sent on a quest to get a breakfast muffin for mom, but returned with some other pastry declaring that the only muffins at the café had speckle on them. “Could that maybe have been poppy seeds, dear?” asks mom. Even better was in the Philly airport, where we see a tyke racing away down the concourse away from his parents. Mom cries out, “Go vanguard and run; you’ll never find Grandma’s House!” Awesome.
Killed still more time by sitting on the tarmac after boarding the plane. The captain said that ‘they’ were ‘impelling planes around’ and that no planes were allowed to taxi or take off. Whatever the reason, no planes went anywhere for a good long just the same from time to time. Ultimately, we all got moving again and the captain announced we were #7 for runway, number twenty something for take off. All in all, we were about two hours late leaving Philly.
And yet. Not such a bad fetich, since we were in danger of arriving loooong before the cruise was going to depart, and we would probably have been stuck dragging luggage around Barcelona. Once there, we got loot, figured...
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