Complete (Five Minute Friday)

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This Friday was a travel day for me. We were up early to gather or things and get to the airport. We flew on a small plane with only 3 seats per row for the first flight and all was remarkably quiet. Then we got on the larger plane for the pond-jumping part of our trip. The international flight was on a larger plane with 6 seats per row. For that flight, I was stuck in a middle seat. The flight was uncomfortably long, over six hours and with the five hour time difference we lost a night of sleep. We arrived early on Saturday morning.

No overly long flight across an ocean would be complete without a constantly crying baby. I didn’t mind too much, the baby was probably as ready to be off that airplane as I was. Then with all the popping of ears with cabin pressure, it was probably scary and uncomfortable for the baby. I was just grateful that the baby was way up in the front of the plane and we were much nearer to the back of the plane which allowed the screams to be muted somewhat by the distance. I can only imagine how rough it would have been to be stuck in any seat near the little screamer.

I had to admire the parents or whoever was responsible for the little screamer because the mere fact that they had the guts to even think of traveling by plane such a distance with an infant makes them much braver than I. We took our kids to Disney in 2000 so they would have been almost seven and barely nine at that time. I couldn’t imagine trying such a trip with younger kids who didn’t have a concept of time or the ability to entertain themselves for hours. It was the kids’ first plane ride and the first I could actually remember as well. I am told I was about two years old the only time I flew on a plane before that and I have no memory of it at all.

Flying gets easier each time I do it. I’m still not crazy about the closeness we are confined to with so many other people. As an introvert, this is not an ideal situation to put myself into on a regular basis. Never knowing if THIS trip will be the last I get to take to such a destination, I try to make the most of any trip I get to take.

This post is part of the weekly Five Minute Friday link-up!
The prompt this week is: Complete
The assignment: Write for five minutes on the word of the week. This is meant to be a free write, which means: no editing, no over-thinking, no worrying about perfect grammar or punctuation. Just write.

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