The 27-Hour Day
My 27-hour day started at 3:00 in the morning. Even though our flights had been rescheduled to later in the morning, Kim and I were talking to each other online, too excited to sleep.
Much later, we ended up on a JetBlue plane named “Do-Be-Do-Be-Blue.” Apparently, they name all of their planes.
Here is us, before the first flight.
We were sitting in the first row, which means there was absolutely no “under the seat in front of you” to put our bags. We had to stuff our bags overhead for the short flight to JFK. Every seat had video monitors, so I could be geeky and track the entire flight.
I got this really cool silhouette of Kim.
When we got to JFK, Kim and I practiced awkwardly in the airport as other people wondered what we were doing. Right before we boarded our plane to Las Vegas, we managed to point at the sign while security wasn’t looking.
Once we got on the plane, we were left on the ground for an hour as we waited for clearance to take off. We got bored so we took pictures of ourselves and the plane.
Kim saw a Pac Man pattern on a field below, so she took a picture.
While over Arizona, we drank Arizona iced tea. I think it tasted slightly better because of this.
Almost there…
We finally got there. Stepping off the plane, we got our first real experience of the desert heat. It’s a different sort of heat than summer in Maine, and not just because of the temperature. It is a dry heat, similar to the kind a furnace blows in the winter. When the wind blows, it feels like a hair dryer. It was definitely hot, but bearable.
Here is us at the airport.
Right after, we went to the Cheesecake Factory, where we met up with all the other Maine qualifiers and judges. The Cheesecake Factory always has the best food. That pretty much ended our day. The three hour time change was very easy to adjust to, so we saw it as a few extra hours to sleep before the competition begins.
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Hi, I'm Neil! I'm passionate about building delightful products at scale, creating music, and performing in theatre and comedy shows.
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