Big Plane - Empty Seats

Monday, September 21, 2009



I've got this cool iPod iTouch app that keeps track of the travel itinerary and will update if flights get delayed or if gates change. It also has a link to seatguru that provides a layout of the plane showing the seats and even rates them based on legroom or proximity to the toilets and they also tell you if your seat has one of those power adapters so that you can use it to provide power to your electronics. Pretty cool - except it was wrong. I asked the lady at the counter and she said that I could upgrade for $250 and get one with a power port. Hmmm. Don't think so. But I did find that the seat was a pretty primo seat but when I went to check in they said that they had changed planes and changed the seats but that the plane was pretty empty and she could give me an aisle seat with two empty seats beside it. What? Really? I was doubtful that it would last but sure enough, when the plane backed away for takeoff, the two seats beside me were empty and so was the one in front of me. I had already watched Star Trek XI and The Proposal on the earlier flight so I kicked the menu over to the classics and watched O Brother Where Art Thou and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian while I stretched out across the three seats for a nice nap. But what I thought would have been a couple hours of napping ended up being about an hour. I listened to the audiobook "Do you think I'm beautiful" that deals with the issue of teenage girls getting their identity from many different sources - other than from than from our heavenly father. I love having books on audio and this was a great one to listen to as a father of teenage girls. I pulled out the laptop while listening to a couple new songs on the iTouch like; City on our Knees (Toby Mac), Born Again (Third Day), Watch over me (Aaron Shust), Pull Me Out (Bebo Norman). Laptop on one tray table and iTouch on another. Sweetness. British Airlines has a copy of all of the forms that we usually have to wait and fill out when we land. Sweetness. Not much more time until we touch down in Nairobi. If I did the math right it will have been about 29 hours since we left my house to head to the ATL airport. It's been a long day.