Houston

The adventure begins! Griff drove me to PDX on January 2nd (earlier today for me still...). I got my boarding passes and checked my bags with Continental Airlines. I had to pay $50 for my second checked bag, but I expected that. Griff and I said goodbye outside security, and I managed not to cry just yet. I miss him already though. : (



Since my first two flights are domestic flights, I haven't been through international security yet and I didn't end up going out to the international terminal.  While I was waiting to get on my flight I got another compliment on my panda hat (a Christmas present from Griff that I will take a picture of later). I've gotten about 8 compliments on it so far. Apparently it's a good conversation starter. ^_^ On the plane I sat next to two elderly women. The plane was pretty nice, they played a movie and TV shows for most of the flight. I watched some of the movie (Guardians of Ga'hoole) but I couldn't plug in my headphones because the elderly woman who was right next to me (I sat on the aisle) put up the armrest that had the headphone jack on it. Probably wasn't a bad thing all told though because it meant I actually slept some. I woke back up when they turned the screens back on to play TV shows. After that I just played Solitaire and waited. We landed on time, a couple minutes early even, I got off the plane and found my next gate without too much trouble.

Across from my gate in Houston

My gate in Houston.



I was hungry so I decided to try The Little Creamery instead of waiting in the massive line for Starbucks. I got a croissant with egg, cheese and ham on it and an iced mocha. It was pretty good. Now I'm sitting here at my gate, waiting for them to start boarding (it should be any minute now). Apparently my plane was an international plane so it's taking some extra time to clean.