The Journey

was long!

I left home early... my ticket wouldn't print. I went to my aunts to print it... and of course it only printed one out of three tickets. i gave up caring and let the check in man print me the rest. we went out to eat on the way to the airport. I left Toledo (holy crap, that airport is tiny!) at 3, arrived at Chicago at 2.40... yay for time travel!

I took a super long hike at O'Hare to my connection and they bored early, which i didn't mind because I hate sitting around. I got to my seat and waited... and waited... and no one showed up to sit next to me... I was so happy. I thought for sure they would run in right before the door shut but no!!!! I had two seats to myself! ahhh, it was so nice! I had this awesome plan to take a sleeping pill right before dinner and sleep. But no. They had to play the Hunger Games as the movie. I hadn't seen it so I stayed up. I sprawled out across my two seat bed for like, and hour and a half and they turned on the lights for breakfast. thanks. no sleep.

Madrid has the distance to connecting gates marked in time on the signs... mine was 26 minutes! Up escalators, down escalators, turn, turn again. omg, I thought Chicago was a hike. By the time I got to security I was done. I finally got to my little area and they said they didn't have a gate picked yet (they waited until 10 minutes before the flight to do that, it was awesome...) and I had nothing to do. I picked a quite place and tried to get wifi... it wasn't free. like, 11 euro for 20 mins. I sucked it up and payed 17 for 24 hours. I was there like 5 hours.

The flight to Valencia made me sick. Partly because I was tired and Partly because I was sitting next to a frail little old man who smelled like... old man. I almost puked by the time I got to baggage. Which I thought they lost because it never showed up. Then the lady told me they put half in one hall and half in the other. Thanks again. Host Parents were waiting right at the door so it wasn't hard to find them.

I don't remember much, I was so tired I think I blocked it out. I stayed up as long as I could, But don't remember what time I went to bed... I know I slept for 13 hours that night though.