The Trip to Frankfurt

So we drove to Philly (Dad, Jess, and I), and I was feeling better than I had the previous few days. We still didn't have my test results or my debit card...so I left the country with my luggage, ID, an ATM card, and 100 Euro...AND my brain...which can come in handy.

I flew US Air to Frankfurt, and sat in the window seat of the last row of the plane next to a woman from Switzerland. We had pasta (which was spicy), vanilla yogurt, crackers with cheese, and bread with butter for dinner. It was hard to have such a long flight on the window seat, because my bag didnt fit under the seat in front of me, so every time I wanted something I would have had to make my neighbor get up...so I only asked her to get up once, then I took the opportunity to get to my bag when she would get up to go to the bathroom or whatnot. The TVs weren't working, so I listened to my iPod for a bit. I figured it would be easy to get on the European schedule if I could get to sleep for 7 hours or so on my plane ride, wake up when I landed at 6 am, and stay up all day.

That didn't really work because I was too excited...so instead I tried taking pictures of the moon, since we were flying so high above the clouds, and there were no lights to be seen in the ocean. (Here is an attempt...but after multiple tries I realized that double-paned glass is just not photo-friendly!)

Suddenly, I realized a huge difference in the view...land! I wish there had been an airplane radio station giving me a tour of Europe from the air! I was trying to get an idea of our location, but ended up just being sucked into the amazing amount of lights in one area and complete darkness in others. I wondered what the world was like before electricity, which was good because then I fell asleep.