Plane Day

The trip went pretty smoothly. Airport checkin was quick, although I hate the part about taking off your shoes. I had forgotten about that and Orion had his lace up Vans on. No biggie though. We got our shoes back on and hit a snack store. Then we found the closest outlet we could to our gate and popped in a Blue’s Clues DVD. It was pretty funny because there was also a girl, maybe in her early 20s, with a Mac, using the other outlet, and Orion kept asking her if she wanted to watch Blue’s Clues with him. J

Our tickets had the boarding time on them, so we got everything packed up and went closer to the gate right before them. They were running a little late, so Orion went up to the desk to ask when the plane would be ready. (He kept saying “blast off: LOL). There were two guys working the desk, and one of them went to ask if we could preboard because he wanted to take Orion up to the cockpit! Go, go Alaska Airlines. Best desk people ever!

The plane we were on turned out to be tiny. We had been moved to row 18 to get seats together, and that turned out to be the last row! So we were right across from the bathroom and our seats didn’t go back. It wasn’t too horrible, though. The rear flight attendant had his pull down seat right next to ours, so we got to chat with him. He was an older dude and seemed to really like Orion. The flight was fairly easy thanks to me buying a new Little Einsteins DVD. He has only seen that show once, but he enjoyed it, so I thought we would give it a try, and it held his interest until the battery on my laptop died. Thankfully, we were just about to start descent, and a sticker book I bought lasted the rest of the trip.

I had never been to Burbank airport. Rose and I had a bit of trouble finding each other at the baggage claim area. It wasn’t marked at all, but she finally made her way over by asking somebody for directions. We were lucky she made it on time since she had horrible traffic coming from Ventura, but the trip to Simi from Burbank was a breeze. We had an exciting Wendy’s dinner back at my parent's and got settled in.