Through My Lens: On Our Way!!!

5/7/2011

It’s 9:19 am and we are on our way to Phoenix. 4:30am came quite early, especially since I had a hard time falling asleep. It seems that when you need it the most, sleep takes its sweet time.

I was a little sad this morning when I woke up and it wasn’t to the sound of my baby boy’s voice. I teared up a little but Jon reassured me with descriptions of sandy beaches and much needed time to ourselves. Jareth is in the best hands possible this week. It isn’t that, that I’m worried about. It’s just that I will miss him so much. Right now he is probably finishing up breakfast and getting ready for his trip to see granny in Cookeville. I hope he woke up happy and didn’t wonder where I was. I think I’m going to have to make a call during our layover.

The plane ride has been easy so far. I hate take off. That sick feeling you get in your stomach and rises to your throat as you ascend into the air is not a pleasant, unless your name is Jon. For some reason he gets a thrill out of it. The boy loves to fly. The Zach Brown Band was kind enough to help out with my anxiety, them and a little Jason Aldean. Once in the air I put my mind to ease with my Kobo. I’m finishing up Bram Stoker’s Dracula during the flight to Oahu.

Jon is sitting across the aisle from me listening to his Ipod and mouthing the lyrics to Chris Brown. Jeremy and Liz are playing games on their Ipad next to me as I write. I don’t have my earbuds in at the moment and there is pure silence on the plane. Other than the sound of the plane, the rumpling of papers or someone sneezing or adjusting in their seat now and then, it’s pretty much silent. The person in front of my just decided to lean their seat back so now I’m typing with my laptop in my gut. Awesome. Anyhoo, so far so good in our travels.

Here are a couple of pictures:

Later

It’s 4:31pm Eastern Time…. or 2:31 Mountain Time…. or 1:31 Pacific Time. Honestly, I’m having a hard time figuring out the time difference and keeping up with which zone we are in. But I do know we are expected to land in Honolulu at 2:10 Pacific Time. But then the time doesn’t make any since because it’s a six hour flight and we’ve been in the air for about 3 hrs. So it can’t be 1:31 in HA…..?????? I’m asking Jon……He says he will explain it to me in a minute. “True Grit” is on.

Currently, we are making our way over 2,000 miles of ocean. I have a window seat but all I see out of it is cotton. I made myself watch out the window as we took off from Phoenix. It was pretty cool I must say. It was neat to watch everything below us get smaller and smaller. And it lessened the sick-to-my-stomach feeling during takeoff.

Okay Jon just explained the time difference to me. Hawaii is on Hawaii Time, not Pacific Time as I previously believed. So, it is 10:31am in Hawaii. That means we have 4 more hours to go…The flight isn’t too bad. The flight between ATL and Phoenix absolutely dragged on. But the fact that Jon and I have three seats to ourselves helps. That and they are showing a good movie.

Here's Phoenix from my view