Over the next year they kept making us feel bad for not coming to visit. I already had two trips planned and adding a third one would make it a bit tighter, not just with money but with my vacation leave at work. We finally gave in and decided to go near Ben's birthday. I wasn't too excited about going anywhere in February just because of the weather and my other trip being so close. Ugh, lots to do.
We booked our flights and let Josh and Sam know when we were going to arrive. They seemed excited for our visit. Luckily, this trip was somewhat cheap. I had Ben be in charge of the tickets and I paid for the food. The night before I packed my stuff so I would be ready after work. Ben had the day off so he had some time to pack up before we left. I had him take me to work that morning and drop me off. I told him I would let him know when to come and get me. I wanted to leave as soon as possible so we had plenty of time to get up to Sea-Tac just in case something happens.
I finished my work around 1:50 that afternoon (our case load was on the light side) and Ben came and got me around 2:45. That gave us another hour plus to grab everything and head up to the airport. We got on I-5 and made our way to Ajax2. We have had success there over the past two years I will continue to use it because of my state employee discount. My philosophy on driving up to Seattle is that I always assume there will be traffic until there isn't. We got to Ajax2 and parked in lot Q. There was still a lot of snow in the parking lot from last week's snowmageddon. The shuttle came immediately and we were driven over to Alaskan Airlines.
Our driver stopped, we grabbed our stuff and headed to the check in area. We got our boarding passes and then stood in line to check one bag. We wandered over to the security area and noticed that it had changed a little bit since November. Going through security was a breeze. We walked down to our gate (C2B) to see where it was.
We figured we had better eat something before our flight left. We had a bunch of time so we took advantage of it. We used the restrooms, I changed into sweatpants (because I wanted to be comfortable) and we then decided what we wanted to eat in the B concourse. We had to wait a little bit but we were finally seated at this Rel'ish place.
We ate burgers and fries and sat next to a lady and her son, who fiddled with his Ipad the entire time. I think he was playing Pokémon. I got some paper out and proceeded with getting our sign ready for the geocache that was in the airport. Flying Fish at Sea-Tac (GC7B73R) was a fun virtual. I thought our sign was adorable. We were going to grab this one last November when we went to Colorado but I had totally forgotten about it.
We hung out at our gate until it was time to go. We both used the restroom one more time and filled up our water bottles. I came back and a lady had stolen my seat near the gate. Ben just shrugged so I found another place to sit until they called our group. We were in group E, yes...the last group to board the plane. We walked to the plane and had to go outside to board it. It was chilly. We got on and found our seats. We got to sit next to each other. It was about a 450 mile plane ride which was going to take about an hour and a half.
As we sat down Ben was playing around with his phone. There is a feature on the I-phone where you can drop pictures or messages into a "cloud" if the other random people had the feature on. Ben dropped a picture meme making fun of Patriot fans. The girl in front of us started laughing. She saw the picture and wondered who dropped it. Ben started talking to her. She said it was hilarious and she even said she was a Patriot fan, but not a die hard. She thanked us for the laugh.
During the flight we played hangman and talked about random stuff. We did receive cookies but no beverages due to the high turbulence. There was a lot of turbulence on that flight. We got to Boise before our scheduled arrival. The pilot attempted to make his descent and ended up deciding not to when we all felt the huge shift in the plane. We just had a "just kidding" attempted landing. We circled around again and this time we made our actual landing.
We finally landed and Ben texted Josh that we've arrived. He was parking the car and was going to meet us at the arrivals gate. We got off the plane and headed down the corridor to baggage claim and grabbed our suitcase. We went up the escalator and out a door into the arrivals. There was Josh standing there waiting for us. I haven't seen Josh in years. We each gave out some hugs and we walked out to the car. It was chilly outside.
We drove the half hour to Nampa and made it to his and Sam's townhouse apartment. We unloaded our bags and went inside. Spiderman and zombie decorations for days!! Holy cow! Every wall was covered!
We settled in, he gave us the tour of the house and Sam said hi before she had to go to bed. He showed us the bedroom and bathroom we were going to use while we were there. We watched some TV and decided to retire to bed. We got washed up and passed out. Today was a long day.
Next Adventure: Dave and Buster's, Grocery Shopping, Chimichangas and Deadpool
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