Every three years, we take a vacation. Florida. Florida. Florida. The same place. Every. Single. Time. Why? Family. 6 PM the night before. We go to bed, to get prepared for a long day. Anxiety overwhelms my ability to sleep. I finally feel sleepy, and start to drift off. The next morning, my parents wake me up at 2 A.M. to go to the airport. I get out of bed with the feeling of a zombie. I just want to sleep. I get dressed, and head down to the car. We load our luggage, and head towards the airport. I fall asleep in the car, just for that extra hour of sleep. I wake up as I feel the car slowing down. We’re pulling into the terminal. We say goodbye to my step-dad, and go in. My mom gets frustrated with the check in computer. She won’t let anyone help her. We wait fifteen minutes for her to figure it out. We get our boarding passes, and get in the
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Put on my seatbelt, and watch the flight attendants put on their “play”. My anticipation for the flight to take off gets bigger and bigger. Finally, I hear the jet engines roaring up. We start moving, faster, and faster by the second. I start to feel the plane going up. I have the sense of gaining altitude. I start getting sleepy, and don’t remember anything, until we started our descent. We were about to land in Memphis to catch our final flight to Fort Lauderdale. I feel the bump of the landing wheels touching the ground. We wait ten minutes for a gate to be open. In the meantime, we taxi about the tarmac. Finally, we get a gate. We are one of the first ones off the plane. We make it off the plane, and head to the next gate. We wait another eternity for the crew to start boarding. After that eternity ends, we are moving towards the jetway. It feels like a walk of infinity. Once on the final flight, I am seated with an older couple that I spoke to throughout the flight. In this flight my ears kept popping. Needless to say, it was very
Put on my seatbelt, and watch the flight attendants put on their “play”. My anticipation for the flight to take off gets bigger and bigger. Finally, I hear the jet engines roaring up. We start moving, faster, and faster by the second. I start to feel the plane going up. I have the sense of gaining altitude. I start getting sleepy, and don’t remember anything, until we started our descent. We were about to land in Memphis to catch our final flight to Fort Lauderdale. I feel the bump of the landing wheels touching the ground. We wait ten minutes for a gate to be open. In the meantime, we taxi about the tarmac. Finally, we get a gate. We are one of the first ones off the plane. We make it off the plane, and head to the next gate. We wait another eternity for the crew to start boarding. After that eternity ends, we are moving towards the jetway. It feels like a walk of infinity. Once on the final flight, I am seated with an older couple that I spoke to throughout the flight. In this flight my ears kept popping. Needless to say, it was very