The best thing about taking a red-eye is that it is always the low point of the day.
It was a typical United Flight – boarding is by privilege. What I found interesting, unlike daytime business hour flights, is that the plan wasn’t ½ full by the time that all boarding group 1. This meant that there was plenty of room in the overhead compartment for my backpack. Grabbing my window seat, I was prepared to sleep the entire flight.
We will not mention the entitled dude behind me with his leaking ear buds and tendency to continually beat the back of my seat in rhythm with something. By far more fun was the young Korean student in the aisle seat who is on her first trip to the US. We traded seats for the landing so that she could take pictures out the window.
My bags were already on the carousel when I arrived at baggage claim. Reaching my friend with whom I am staying for a couple of nights, I had time to grab coffee before getting picked up. We had breakfast at a wonderful little café before heading to the Cross Stitch Cupboard. Would you believe that I had planned this visit out enough to have a short list of floss which I could use. And then, there were a couple of patterns.
We spent the rest of the day relaxing, stitching, and I was observed by the cats who were not sure at all what they should think about this invader to their place…. and I took my own red-eyes to bed at a reasonable time…
