Flying over Chicago
My Christmas vacation is over and I am now back in Halifax. I got back on Sunday night at around midnight, after spending about 12 hours travelling and 36 hours without sleeping.
The holiday was fun, there was some family drama, but I figure that always happens. It was great seeing everyone again, I hadn’t seen 2 of my step sisters in about 2.5 years, so they had grown up quite a bit.
We did all the standard Christmas vacation activities; opening presents, shopping, eating a lot, arguing about political views. The day before I left I went with my Dad, brother, and nephew to an MSU hockey game that was held at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, which is where the Red Wings play. Pretty cool, even if I don’t like hockey that much. I can’t believe actually that the arena is so small, compared with places like the Air Canada Centre it was tiny. Here’s a picture of us at the game:
At the hockey game
Then on Sunday I flew back to Halifax. Because the airport is in Detroit, but we were staying in East Lansing (an hour away-ish) we had to get up really early so my brother, sister, brother’s fiance, and nephew could make their flight at 9am. When faced with the prospect of going to bed at 1, only to wake up again at 4:30, my brother and I (and his fiance) decided to stay up and watch episodes of Flight of the Concords, and play Super Smash Bros. instead of sleeping. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
My flights were pretty ridiculous. I had to fly from Detroit to Chicago, then from Chicago to Ottawa, Ottawa to Halifax. That is clearly not the most efficient way to travel. I was actually really lucky though considering how many delays there were that while all my flights left later than scheduled, I never missed my next flight because of that delay. I also found myself not enjoying flying as much this time, I think the no sleep and windy conditions combined to make me paranoid as were landing and the plane was shaking all over the place. It’s too bad because I usually love flying.
Then yesterday I unpacked, did some errands, and ended up falling asleep at 9:30pm. Oops.
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Dave Everyday 