JFK may be my favorite President...

but certainly not my favorite airport.

So I said I was going to New York this weekend. I did. It was a great time, amazing weather and all. I made some videos that I'll put up here once I upload them.

Dan and I wanted to maximize our time spent together, and we did, so much that we were concerned I might miss my flight. I had only used LaGuardia up until that point, and this time I had to leave through JFK. Now everything before hand said my flight was "on time" = 5:45, which means boarding at 5:15 and getting there early enough for security and all that fun stuff. I got to the gate right at 5:15 to find that there were at least 4 planes departing from that gate before mine. They wanted some people to volunteer to wait till tomorrow to fly home, and they'd give you a gift certificate and everything. I thought, hey, why not... my flight was already gonna be late, and I only had 55 minutes to depart on the following plane. Dan and I decided to see if I boarded in 10 minutes, if it was any longer than that, I would take the deal and figure out how to get back Monday morning. I boarded. I told the flight attendant how much time I would have in between and asked her what she thought I should do. I believe she said it would be to my advantage if I stayed on the plane. We sat there for about an hour, and then we moved to get in line to take off. All this time we're following no cell phone procedures, just sitting and waiting. Then they come on around 7:15 and say that 35-40 planes are ahead of us waiting to take off. So we waited another hour or so. Finally we took off, and got to Cincinnati around 9:25. My flight to South Bend was taking off at 9:07. I missed it.



soooo right now I am in Northern Kentucky, in a hotel room, reflecting on this weekend and my decision making to listen to flight attendants over my instincts... I got a flight tomorrow morning so I should be back in time for class and I need to pick up a book which I believe is an actual personal document, but we shall see. I really don't mind being here, it is my own little adventure... traveling this beautiful country on my own, making real decisions and learning how to accept them... it is a vast improvement from previous Mickeys.