Day 297 - Travel Day 1

Well as everyone knows I do not have stress free travel.  You would think that after my trip to Las Vegas I would be okay with it now, but I found my stress level rising as I got closer and closer to the departure hour.  The traumatic thoughts still went through my head, what if what if what if.

I didn't sleep real well that night, and when I got to the airport I definitely had the nervous stomach, but I just ignored it, dropped my bag off and headed to security.  The line was moving really slow, but I am my father's daughter and I do tend to get to the airport in a timely manner.  In other words it took an hour to get through security, but I still had at least an hour to wait before I boarded, lots of time to go to the bathroom. 

I always wait until about ten minutes before boarding, I do not want any problems on the plane, and I certainly do not want to use the plane's bathroom - for many reasons.  But because of my nervous stomach I went a little earlier, and when I came back there was no where to sit, and to be truthful I still had a nervous stomach (All S's out there know what our nervous stomach is) so it is always best to be seated rather then standing when our "stomach" is being nervous.  So no where to sit I started to pace, decided that maybe I shouldn't stand next to people for a couple of minutes and then pace some more.  I couldn't wait for them to call us so I could sit down.  Finally they announced the flight and invited the first class and family with children to board, so over I marched and the woman looked up surprised to see me standing there and checked me in.  I was the only one there - no one else boarded at that time I was the first one to enter the plane, I was the first one to sit I was the first one to be given something to eat and I was the first one to F, but at least there was no one else on the plane so who cares - right?

The next people that came on board was like 10 minutes later, and I wondered if I had heard her wrong, maybe she had said they would start boarding passengers - not that they were boarding passengers - hey she didn't have to let me on.   And by the time everybody came on board my nervous stomach had subsided.