God's Greatest Gift

Gods greatest gift to earth is President’s day weekend.

 Okay. That may be an overstatement. But President’s Day weekend turned out to be pretty freaking awesome for this girl. I arrived in Southern California on Thursday the 16^th so that I could spend some time with my friends at APU before I embark on my adventures down under. It has been awesome.

Although getting to CA was a bit of a challenge. I had quite a difficult time at the airport. As I had mentioned before, packing space was tight, so when I ran out of room, I just had to wear everything else. This meant:

Tank top

Long sleeve shirt

Over shirt

Cardigan

Zip up Hoodie

Scarf

Rain Coat

You would think that it was freezing in PDX…it wasn’t, and I was sweating. (All I kept think of was “I can’t put my arms down” from a Christmas story). So security was rough, because I had to take off all those layers.  

There were some other kerfuffles that made my travels difficult (like the entire University of Portland Baseball team before me in both the check in line and the security line). And of course the one time I’m in a hurry, security has to pull me aside and pat me down. Typically I would have been bashful or felt weird about it, but I just wanted to get on my flight, so I just presented myself to that poor TSA woman. I practically grabbed her hands to get them on my body just to speed up the process. (She kept wanting to chat with me and I was in no mood). Finally after sprinting to my gate wearing my 8 layers of clothes carrying my 30 lbs of stuff, I made it.

Relieved to have made it to the plane I took my seat. For some reason or another, there was no one in the seat next to me on the plane. Unheard of right?! This actually happens to me a lot. Don’t get me wrong. I’m thankfull, but, I’m I really that bad of a airplane partner that the universe wouldn’t dare put anyone next to me? As I was thinking about this I put my feet up on the other seat and proceeded to sleep for the whole 2 hour flight, completely sprawled over the two seats. (Just as well, I probably smelt bad from all that running I did earlier...and all the layers).

Once Arriving in CA I got to see so many friends and have probably the best consecutive 4 nights of my life. I am choosing to not post about it on the internet because I think everyone would just be too dang jealous. Lets just leave it at: I have great friends.

I plan to leave for LAX in about 2 hours and I still have a lot to do. My towel is in the dryer and my bag is completely unpacked. So I better get crackin!

Next time I update I will be in Australia! Finally.