Oct. 18, 2004
9:45 a.m.

A lot of the stress of a trip comes from the planning. We're sitting in the plane now, waiting for takeoff, so I guess we're past the initial planning phase.

Ironically enough, right as we walked through the metal detector I realized that though I had remembered to make an 8 1/2 hour playlist for my iPod, I had forgotten to bring my headphones. Luckily I was able to get some really crappy headphones at a magazine shop in the airport for $10.

We saw the usual sight at Salt Lake International Airport: the departing LDS missionaries. They must have filled every spare inch of their suits with quarters because I think each of them were on the pay phones for an hour and a half. Time for all of those teary goodbyes to mommies and softly-spoken, sappy goodbye promises to girlfriends.

Once we finally get in the air, it will be about four and a half hours to Newark, New Jersey. My nervousness level right now is moderately low. I think I'll feel better once we're on the flight to London.

Oct. 18, 2004
11:00 a.m.

We are finally in the air. The flight was delayed an hour "because there's a light that's not working." No hard feelings, though, because they just said that Dodgeball is the in-flight movie. Traci is refusing to watch it again.

Oct. 18, 2004
1 p.m.

Dodgeball just ended. It was funnier than I emembered. This was an edited version which was actually better because it cut out a lot of the dirty humor that wasn't really very funny at all.

I'm not really sure if this flight is going to Newark or Branson, Missouri judging by the large number of old people on this plane.

So far, Continental Airlines is pretty nice. They gave us a full lunch and unlike crappy Northwest, they gave us a whole can of apple juice. Lunch was an apple, a bag of potato chips, and a warm teriyaki chicken sandwich. Because it was an airline meal the chicken tasted a bit more like slimy, mystery meat than chicken but I think that is to be expected.

Oct. 18, 2004
11:45 p.m. (Utah time)

We have finally arrived in London. The flight went well, though neither of us really slept at all. Continental Airlines proved to be quite nice. There were TVs on the back of each head rest and you could choose what you wanted to watch. I watched Friends, CSI Miami, CSI, half of Spiderman 2 and 3/4ths of the pre-teen movie Sleepover.

The only drawback was the old man sitting in front of us who had the worst gas in the world. Every 15-20 minutes it was like someone set off a stink bomb. Horrible! By the end of the flight I was this close to kicking the geezer in the back off of the head and saying, "Cut it out, gas man!"

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