Waving goodbye and saying Howdy!

I wake up at 4.45 to my alarm of Britney Spears ´Piece of Me´i didnt choose it honest, its just the loudest song on my phone and is always guaranteed to wake me up by scaring the crap outta me with the loud opening beats. I quickly get dressed and ready, i knock on my parents door to make sure my stepdad is awake, he pulled the short straw of having to drive me to the airport.

We arrive in good time at Gatwick airport around 6.30am and he drops me off, Gatwick is really convenient for us as its only an hour and 10 drive and much nicer than Heathrow in my opinion. My flight leaves at 9.30 and I check my bag in with Continental all the way through to Portland, Oregon. I spend the next few hours making phone calls to friends and hanging round the airport.

My seat neighbours are a family from Dorset travelling onto Tampa. They were such a sweet family, the flight was really good the only thing that bugged me was an indian family in front of us with a little kid who screamed non stop for about an hour and the parents just pushed her away whilst they were trying to watch a movie. I watched ´Juno´which was so good, Ellen Page is such a good actress! We arrive into Newark around 1.30pm, during the descent we have the most god awful turbulence and the little girl next to me makes me feel a ton better by innocently asking me áre we gonna crash?´   ´no´ i assure her but secretly im kinda scared! Landed fine, i had to endure 3 hours to get through customs, i met this really nice lady along the way who was travelling to Jacksonville, her brother and his wife had arrived a few hours earlier. 

Her connection time was only 3 hours and she was worried she wasnt gonna make it, we kind of hung around together in the long wait and security to catch my connecting flight to PDX, luckily my layover is over 6 hours (lucky in the fact that i have enough time to get through security but not the fact that Im spending 6 hours in Newark airport which is hideous might I add)

So anyways me and Kate finally get through custom and check our bag in and i somehow lose her, i get the train to Terminal C and join the really long security line and im about half way through the line when i see Kate, she sees me and waves and I shout 'MUM! Where have you been?!!', i lift the cordon up and let her join me near the front and she thanks me and she literally has to run to make her flight and meet her brother. I finally  find a seat and settle down to wait for my next flight, i manage to read nearly all of my book and in the process see some crazy man get arrested right in front of for going berserk because he missed his flight twice.

  Flight leaves Newark at 6.55 and we arrive in Newark around 10.30pm, i had 3 seats to myself at the back, i fall asleep pretty much straight away and wake up about 30 minutes before landing, i put the armrests up and sort of collapsed there, when i woke up i was mumbling in my sleep and was a bit dribbly but i was so tired i didnt care! Managed to pull myself together and look a bit more alive, meet the Palmers at the airport I hug Emmy and Marty when i arrive, im so happy to be here. I stay up til 1.30am talking to Emmy and catching up, im so exhausted but im finally here, yay!