Let the games begin.

The day I have been waiting anxiously for and have been planing for is finally here.   My good friend Ryan Vasilick picked me up at 2 and chauffeured me to the Philadelphia international airport for my flight to Spain at 6:45.   Everything went smoothly and flawlessly excluding our attempts to say "ToyBoat" three times fast on the car ride down.   Seriously,  try it yourself out loud.  You will be sure to laugh at yourself a little.

We said our good byes and i was on my own.  A lone wolf with out a wolf pack . . . oh sorry let me not get to carried away  . I was a little self conscious walking to my departure gate with a big smile on my face looking like a weirdo.  I was just all excited to be embarking on this solo quest.  I am sure i definitely had some nervous butterfly's too.

The united airlines plane was amazing.  8 rows of seats wide ( and I happened to get a window seat :-)   And TV's on the front of every chair with settings that tell you how fast the plane is going (whopping 626mph),GPS coordinates, temperature outside the plane, which was -76 degrees by the way, altitude and all other sorts of stuff.   As an engineer I got a real kick out of that hahah.

I was seated next to a very nice man that travels to Valencia a lot and was telling me about some neat things about the area and how I better make sure I don't get glued to Spain and forget to go home to my job in August.  I laughed and told him that might not be out of the question.. . ..  Oh wait, my parents might be reading this.  What I really said was naaa I'll be back with plenty of time to get ready for my job!

Because it was a red eye and I wouldn't be getting into Madrid till 8:30am and I still had to get all the way down to Seville I told myself that i should definitely no questions asked sleep on the flight over, But that was before I found out they had 36 movies to choose from.   And for everyone that knows me you know how I get when watching a movie.  I'm glued to that screen like my dog Ginger is glued to my mom.  The only thing that distracted me was spaghetti dinner with salad and a dessert.   And not to forget the complementary wine.  It might have been boxed wine that reminded me of junior year frat party but hey,  it was still wine.  And I think it made me laugh a little harder during Ice Age.