3 weeks and 22,000 miles

so its been exactly 3 weeks since i graduated from flight attendant school and i literally have not had enough time on the reserve couch to update the blog. Its a good thing in a way, at least I haven't been bored! Also, I am currently writing on my new baby laptop. It is the most precious looking thing ever. It is about half the size of my big laptop and weighs about 1/10th as much. The blackberry is good for mobile google and facebook, but not good for blogs, so here I am.

So I have already flown 22,000 miles+ in 3 short weeks, that's almost around the world once. crazy. Word in the lounge is that crew scheduling takes half of the reserves and flies them endlessly and the other half just sits forever, then they switch them up. Obviously, I'm in the non-sit group... I don't think I've sat more than 5 hours total in the lounge. I'd rather be flying than sitting anyway.

So I'll leave out the boring stuff and get right to my fun flights.

My first real trip was wonderful! Laura, a friend from my f/a class was one of my crew members on a 4 day trip. We had a blast. One overnight in Milwaukee and one in Baltimore. Thats only 2 cities you may notice, and 3 nights on the trip... well one of our nights was a redeye to and from LAX. Pretty tiring, but the easiest flight I've had. Basically the entire plane was asleep and the pilots let me sit up in the cockpit (for minimum 45 minutes) and I saw the most beautiful sunrise. Definitely worth the lack of sleep.

On our 23 hour Baltimore layover, the other 2 flight attendants and I took the train down to Washington D.C. and saw the city. I've only been to D.C. once before, and I really enjoyed my second trip. I was so happy we took advantage of a cool layover.

I had a few more random trip and day turns (meaning I get back to ATL the same day, like a "turnaround"). Everyone has been really sweet and patient with me, being a new girl and all.

My next overnight was on the 4th of July in Minneapolis... well, St. Paul. One of those. We landed around 4 p.m. so we had plenty of time to take the subway bus to downtown to see fireworks. There was a huge festival called A Taste Of Minnesota with tons of food vendors and live music and fair rides. It was really fun. We walked around and ate and watched really pretty fireworks from a big bridge over like Minnetonka. It was a little ironic because the only other time I have ever been to Minnesota was watching fireworks over lake Minnetonka.

My next layover was an overnight in Orlando on July 6th, so I woke up in mickey town on my birthday. It wasn't bad though because I just slept in and went to the pool and chilled. I got home pretty late that night, but my friends and I celebrated the big 2-3 the next night. I had the 8th and 9th off so I got to have a little party time. :)

Now I'm "flying the couch" as they say... waiting for a trip to any city!