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Yesterday was a long travel day. First a couple hours driving from the park to the Bangor Airport, then a two-hour flight to Philadelphia. Then a couple hours in the airport that stretched even longer, as the airline was not able to get open the door from the plane to let people off, so that we could get on. Then we sat on a runway for an hour because there were mix-ups with what runway we could leave from (baffling, I know). Then a lengthy, buffeting flight into a headwind. I was on a window seat, trying to not ask my seatmates to move so I could visit the bathroom, thinking, "Oh, there's mountains! We must be almost there." And the pilot announced, "Below us are the Rockies. That's Yellowstone on the right hand side. We've got another two hours of flighting." (I promptly made everyone move.)
THEN we got to Seattle, and they couldn't get the gate to work. We sat there for a while and then everyone had to put their luggage back so that they could move the plane to another gate.
Passenger morale was low.
I did finish an assignment and read most of the book I have assigned for history class this week. I know much more about the politics of Creek removal from Georgia and Alabama than I did a couple days ago.
This morning, got up to go see how the garden is doing and discovered that everyone has been quite happy while I was gone. The lilacs are in full bloom and I could swear that the grass has shot up a foot. I think I'm going to have a bumper crop of lupine and columbine this year. There's going to be raspberries too.
Marpa is comfortably glued to my lap.
THEN we got to Seattle, and they couldn't get the gate to work. We sat there for a while and then everyone had to put their luggage back so that they could move the plane to another gate.
Passenger morale was low.
I did finish an assignment and read most of the book I have assigned for history class this week. I know much more about the politics of Creek removal from Georgia and Alabama than I did a couple days ago.
This morning, got up to go see how the garden is doing and discovered that everyone has been quite happy while I was gone. The lilacs are in full bloom and I could swear that the grass has shot up a foot. I think I'm going to have a bumper crop of lupine and columbine this year. There's going to be raspberries too.
Marpa is comfortably glued to my lap.