Traveling

I currently find myself sitting at gate C81 at the Newark International Airport. There seem to be a few more people here, even when compared to only a few minutes ago. A father just had his kids look out the window to see the Empire State Building. I thought that was cute. I currently have about 2 and a half hours until my plane boards, and do I will use this to pass some of that time.

My impressions of EWR? It's all right. I suppose I like Philly better because I know Philly well by now, but this is nice. Very large, somewhat difficult to get to (we got lucky and had light traffic, but we still had to do a loop through the hotel parking lot to get back on the road) and there are a lot of shops to go into. I'm not complaining. I'm just glad to have gone through security without use of the body scanner. (It was out of order. aw shucks.) Velvet track suit and a black leather cowboy hat. Got to love airport fashion. I write this as it comes to me, so I'm sorry if it seems jumpy.

I find myself a lot more calm now that I am all checked in, but I am still nervous about the flight--I never enjoy flying. Who does, I guess? I sort of wish I had someone to fly with... oh well.

There is a chance that the seat next to me will be vacant on the plan. As of... around noon it was still unoccupied. If that is the case, I am ecstatic. I moved my seat up from the 30th row to the 10th row yesterday, and I checked again today to make sure it was still the case. I REALLY hope seat 10B is vacant to me and my buddy in 10A can enjoy the extra space. I'll let you know when I update in about 12 hours from Berlin....

Talking to my mom on the phone.... will update more later.