The PNW Journey Begins

The morning we left for the PNW, we had a 6:00 am flight. I was pretty grumpy about that, but I slept most of the flight and woke up in time to see the run rising to our right and Mt. Hood in the distance. Of course, we were seated right above a wing, but that's the story of my life.

I was too lazy to edit any of these, but was amazed at the color that appeared in the last one. Maybe it was due to shooting through the airplane window??

Hi.

I'm still alive, I promise. I returned to California Saturday after one too many days in Albuquerque (5 1/2 to be exact) and found my state burning down. But, I'm pretty used to that by now. What I'm not used to is landing practice. Let me share with you:

We were cruising along in our jet when the stewardess (do they still call them that?) announces that we are approaching Ontario Airport. Excited to be almost home I start trying to identify things below through my window. The Speedway, the 15 Freeway, the 10 Freeway: all mean home to me.

Suddenly, we started descending very fast. I'm talking, we were nosediving. I felt my head press back against my seat we were going down so fast. Then, we flattened out. Ok, breathe.

Then we start accelerating. And gaining elevation. Wait! We're supposed to be landing! My house is down there. My bed. My husband. My gabillion animals.

Then the pilot gets on the intercom and casually says "Sorry about that folks. We were coming down just a little too fast and steep there. It was going to be unsafe to land. We're going to circle around and try it again."

Just think about it folks. "Try it again."

Its not like he was supposed to be landing a plane or anything.

Albuquerque, yo!

Well, actually that's Utah, as we were getting ready to touch down in Salt Lake City.

But this is Albuquerque! Or at least pretty close to Albuquerque. I'll be here until Saturday for work, but it appears I'll have quite a bit of down time, so I should be able to get caught up on photo editing and some blogging!

But, as always, don't hold your breath and please cross your fingers!