Day 1 (3/22/11)

Alrighty then, finally the first update!!! This is for our travel day up until we landed. Our trip got off to an auspicious start as we were informed (thanks to Kaitlyn’s demand for our flight numbers) that the flight from Cleveland to Atlanta had been delayed. However this ended up being awesome because we were given a voucher for lunch (Cheeburger Cheeburger for me!) and that was 3 less hours we had to spend in Atlanta! Yay! Anywho the first flight was pretty average, just read my book the whole time. After a newly shortened layover we were on the way to London!! The plane was absolutely gigantic (2-4-2 person rows, something like 50 of them) but it was only half-full! We each ended up taking our own two-person row, and everyone got an aisle! The seats all had personal TVs with a fantastic selection of movies (I watched RED and Due Date, both were fantastic), games (Bejeweled!!!!!!) as well as maps and other stuff. For dinner we had tortellini, salad, bread and little cookie-cake things that were amazing. The only downsides to all the fun I was having was the lack of sleep I got (2ish) and the lack of reading I got done in my book (none-ish). Oh well, after I slept a wee bit we woke up for breakfast during the most beautiful moment I have ever seen on a flight: on my side it was pitch black but you could make out the land forms and the waves of the water from the glow of the moon, as well as the many cities of Ireland below. On the other side the sun was rising and the sky was an amazing combination of purples, oranges and reds. When we finally landed, we packed up and left the best flight I have ever had.