soooooooooooooooo Thanksgiving was great. I got to see my favorite cousin, and his replacement, and some other awesome relatives. The salmon was excellent as always, and who knew that sparkling blood orange juice was so good?
but the trip home was not so good. I was stuck in SeaTac for SIX HOURS!
I walked into the airport and checked the departures board to see what gate I was going to and to my suprise the board said CANCELED next to my flight. So I call my mom to come back and help me figure out what to do. Apparently, they canceled my original flight, and booked me for a flight back today at 2:30 pm, which we had to wait in line for an hour and a half to find out. I was like "uh, no. I can't miss four classes." so they told us to go wait in the Alaska line and hope to make a flight on standby, even though chances weren't good. so we wait in that line for a half hour or so and after lots of talking to people and reassuring them that they were allowed to do this, I get my standby ticket and head to security.
I make it safely through security, only being stupid once and attempting to walk through a metal detector with my phone in my pocket. Guess what? I was randomly selected for a pat-down. WONDERFUL.
I then proceeded to see Lexi and Sarah, both from school. Lexi was one of my directors for Frosh on Stage. Sarah is in my freshman seminar. They were both on the flight I was attempting to take...so Lexi was nice and called Rachel, my director for Audience (a one act), and let her know that I probably wouldn't be at practice since I was stuck in Sea-Tac. I didn't make it on that flight, so I asked if I could be rolled over to the next flight. It took them forever, but finally I was rolled over, and had to book it from the North Satellite to C Concourse.
I made it there with twenty minutes before boarding, and the lady said I was at the top of the list for stand-by, so I had a chance to get on the plane. I was really excited. I ran into Ben, who is a pretty cool kid from Stadium that now goes to Whitworth. =] He was on the flight, so I got to hang out with him until he boarded... They had locked the gate and I was like...aw crap I have to wait for the next flight. and then the lady said MY NAME. so I got on the 7pm flight out and made it home just in time to RUN to play practice. it was wonderful.
and then I came back, went to get food, and did homework.
