from the plane

Bloggggggg post number 1!

Written somewhere over central Spain

Just woke up about 20 minutes ago after a little 2 or 3 hour “nights sleep.” With a time difference of 6 hours, I will be arriving in Spain at 8:30 am Barcelona time, but 2:30 am US Eastern time. Yikes. Just looked out of the window to see a pretty vast looking expanse of dry reddish colored mountains with little clusters of small towns dotted in between. Pretty amazing stuff.
Overall the flight hasn’t been bad at all..sitting in the aisle, which I like, and had probably two solid hours of lovely lovely conversation with my seatmate. Eileen, the woman next to me, told me she is sixty, though she really glows to be honest, (first thing I noticed about her), is from Amelia Island in FLA, and will be in Barca for vacation with a friend. She is such a beautiful older woman and her stories about life and finding her husband when she least expected him, (after deciding she wasn’t getting married), as well as our chit chat about various part of the US we’ve lived in and traveled to have kept us both at ease and enjoying our not so wonderful coach seats. Wish you luck, Eileen, getting around la ciudad, (city en español), and in the rest of your vacation! It was lovely to meet you, live it up ☺
Pretty satisfied with how smoothly everything has run so far..minus my suitcase zipper busting at home about 2 hours before my flight takeoff. Needless to say, Irene had to run to TJ Maxx and grab another one, (by a company named Ricardo..if only it was Alejandro), and Dad proceeded to freak out justttt a little. Had such a great family send off..love ya’ll, if you’re reading. & thanks for the card mom, it was perfect.
The in-flight movie was something of the sappy, not so great acting, Queen Latifa wins the hottie at the end variety, but consumed a pretty decent amount of time anyways.
Alyssa, Hope you are safely well on your way to Italia at this very moment, can’t wait to hear from you!
Danny, hope Valencia is treating you well and I can’t wait to see you! Lets visit soon okay?
We’ve started out final descent and my ears are popping…so close!

¡Hasta Pronto!

C