Terrific Heidi kindly invited me over to her hometown, to celebrate xmas with her family since I am alone and don’t know anyone.
The trip started quite interesting. I told the guy at the front desk that I need a cab at around 3pm and when I got down there was this huge black limousine, waiting for me to pick up, so I had a quite nice (and expensive) ride to the airport and arrived 2.5 hours before departure. To my big surprise I got through check in and security in less than 30minutes, leaving me 2hours to wait. In the one of the shops, I saw the most hilarious xmas animatronic on LaGuardia and was VERY tempted to buy it (see video below).
In Cincinnati the connecting flight to Milwaukee (in a very tiny plane, almost feeling like a VIP 
) was delayed by about 40 minutes and when we were finally allowed to enter the plane, the captain apologized for the delay. “I am sorry for the delay. The lavatory got overserviced.” I have to remember that as an excuse when I am late again, sounds kind reasonable 
.
The flight itself was really nice, for a couple of reasons.
- - the plane itself was really really small, height of the cabin as high as my shoulders
- - it was very warm inside (sitting there in my t-shirt). I freeze really easily but finally met someone who is even more a wuss than me. the guys next to me were sitting with their sunglasses on and had thick coats with hoods, snuggling on each other.
- we were flying in the night above very thick clouds with the lights of the cities beneath shining through. when looking outside you had the feeling you are sitting in a submarine and outside are some kind of undersea volcanoes with shimmering and moving magma.- - and the end of the trip when were descending we were flying through heavy rain which looked like streaks of silver due to the high speed. they formed some kind of pattern which was some kind of really beautiful and relaxing, could have watched this for hours, I guess.
Heidi picked me up and we went to an Irish pub, to just say hello to couple of friends of her but left after about 30 minutes and got to the house of her sister, a really terrific and huge one, on 8 acres of land, see picture I took next day in the morning.
most funny thing today: a sign in the public bathroom on the airport under the automatic faucet: “black clothing does not operate faucet”. bad news for architects, I guess.
March 15th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
um… buoni, realmente buoni luogo e molto utile;)