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The One About Visiting Michigan
Sep. 5th, 2012 02:12 pmNumber one thing about Michigan: It is green. California is not green, usually. It's a sort of burnt brownish-grey, unless someone is using far more than their fair share of water.
So the trip was as follows:
I took a red-eye from LAX. It would not have been so bad, except that there was a young child behind me, who a. did not understand the concept of quiet and b. kept kicking the back of my chair. This is why I think no persons younger than, say, six should be allowed on airplanes, and then only if sedated. But whatevs. The flight itself was uneventful.
We got into Detroit at a time my body insisted was 4:00 AM, although is was 7:00 there. Ragwurm came to pick me up at the airport, and this was when she did not have to and at ungodly early o'clock, to take me to the Boy's house. The Boy has a bunk bed, for reasons that have never been quite clear to me. So I stole it, and promptly slept for six hours.
Then I got up, although I still went to sleep pretty early later on. In the meantime, there was my Boy ;)
On Thursday, I was going to meet up with Carebear, but she was called into work. It made me Sad ;_; because I did not end up seeing her at all. Or her boyfriend, who is called the electric blender-mixer for reasons of Baking. Instead, I played video games and lazed about with the Boy all day long. Which was nice too . . .
On Friday, Ragwurm picked me up for a fun day of movies! First I saw Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which I had never seen before in its entirety. Then we had lunch, which was cheese-and-tomato for me, and turkey for her. She played a game of LoL along with her brother and her brother's girlfriend while we ate. Next we went and saw Batman: they're never going to stop making these movies, in Imax. We had planned to see it in not-Imax, but then we got to the theater late. It was loud :( After the movie, we had dinner at the local Indian restaurant; I got mine too spicy. We did manage to meet up with her sisters, too, in a different restaurant. It was a good day, but I was tired by the time I got back.
On Saturday, I went to Shul. All the people were surprised to see me there, but I got many compliments on how California has given me my first tan in years (true) and also I have lost weight (true but not because of California). It was good to see them again :)
The Wedding was on Sunday, but it will get its own post.
Directly after the wedding, I went to get on an airplane and fly back to LAX. I bought some expensive airport food, and had a nice conversation with some total strangers while eating it. The flight itself was late, but only by ~15 mins. It did have a baby, but it was a good baby and only cried on the way up and down, when the pressure changes were being painful. When we got into LAX, slightly ahead of time, we were made to sit in the plane, on the tarmac, for an hour because there was no gate for us. And there were people who were trying to make a connecting flight to Australia! Amazingly, when they finally did let us off the plane, my shuttle had waited for me so I got home okay.
Now I am back in the land of not-green. Sigh.
So the trip was as follows:
I took a red-eye from LAX. It would not have been so bad, except that there was a young child behind me, who a. did not understand the concept of quiet and b. kept kicking the back of my chair. This is why I think no persons younger than, say, six should be allowed on airplanes, and then only if sedated. But whatevs. The flight itself was uneventful.
We got into Detroit at a time my body insisted was 4:00 AM, although is was 7:00 there. Ragwurm came to pick me up at the airport, and this was when she did not have to and at ungodly early o'clock, to take me to the Boy's house. The Boy has a bunk bed, for reasons that have never been quite clear to me. So I stole it, and promptly slept for six hours.
Then I got up, although I still went to sleep pretty early later on. In the meantime, there was my Boy ;)
On Thursday, I was going to meet up with Carebear, but she was called into work. It made me Sad ;_; because I did not end up seeing her at all. Or her boyfriend, who is called the electric blender-mixer for reasons of Baking. Instead, I played video games and lazed about with the Boy all day long. Which was nice too . . .
On Friday, Ragwurm picked me up for a fun day of movies! First I saw Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which I had never seen before in its entirety. Then we had lunch, which was cheese-and-tomato for me, and turkey for her. She played a game of LoL along with her brother and her brother's girlfriend while we ate. Next we went and saw Batman: they're never going to stop making these movies, in Imax. We had planned to see it in not-Imax, but then we got to the theater late. It was loud :( After the movie, we had dinner at the local Indian restaurant; I got mine too spicy. We did manage to meet up with her sisters, too, in a different restaurant. It was a good day, but I was tired by the time I got back.
On Saturday, I went to Shul. All the people were surprised to see me there, but I got many compliments on how California has given me my first tan in years (true) and also I have lost weight (true but not because of California). It was good to see them again :)
The Wedding was on Sunday, but it will get its own post.
Directly after the wedding, I went to get on an airplane and fly back to LAX. I bought some expensive airport food, and had a nice conversation with some total strangers while eating it. The flight itself was late, but only by ~15 mins. It did have a baby, but it was a good baby and only cried on the way up and down, when the pressure changes were being painful. When we got into LAX, slightly ahead of time, we were made to sit in the plane, on the tarmac, for an hour because there was no gate for us. And there were people who were trying to make a connecting flight to Australia! Amazingly, when they finally did let us off the plane, my shuttle had waited for me so I got home okay.
Now I am back in the land of not-green. Sigh.
