Planes, Trains, and lost luggage...

Everyone has their nightmare travel stories, i bet you mine trumps most of yours. Delays are usually the bad part of people's trips, a delay would have been a welcome change in mine. Because honestly you are better off not having taken off at all, then to get in the air and not be sure whether or not you will be able to land, but lets start at the beginning...
It's my senior year, on my way to New York, the place I have always wanted to visit, i have my tickets, now all I have to do is get there. On Saturday I started my day by going to my day by speeching at the state speech competition. Of course it was all the way in Glenwood (for the geographically challenged like myself that's about 2 hours away) so after my speech we had to race home get my dad then get to Des Moines to the airport. Everything started out fine we got our tickets, waited at the terminal, we even saw my aunt, uncle, and cousin waiting for their plane to Chicago. They had horrible delays and were pretty ticked about that, Chicago, the windy city, seemed to be living up to it's name. My flight was on time so we were set. So we got on the plane and headed for Milwaukee.
That plane trip was fine. We started out alittle later than we were supossed to but we made up some time in the air (isn't that called speeding?). But we made it to the milwaukee airport without out too much of a problem. Once in the airport we found that we were delayed 2 hours. This was alright because it gave us time for a little dinner. (mmm... airport food) But after dinner we got back to the terminal and sat for awhile. We actually started boarding the plane a little earliar than the delay said. While we were boarding i heard some one say something about a storm in new york, The thought running through my head went something like this "Ha at least we will be on our way before they start canceling flights." And so we boarded.
The trip was pretty good while we were in the air. Our biggest complaint was that this man beside us really liked to talk. He was from New York and when he found out we were from Iowa all he wanted to talk about were the Corn Huskers (Oh Cause everyone in the midwest shares one team, obviously.) but other than the distraction from studying my lines It was a good trip.... Until we got closer to New york City that is. As we got closer we felt the turbulance. the captain came over the intercom and said something along the lines of "okay folks"(cause i'm pretty sure they are taught to use the word "folks" in flying school) " we are going to be doing a special landing today, it's really windy at Laguardia so we are going to be relying heavily on our breaks to get stopped" In simpler words "this landing is going to be bumpy. As we began our decent It seemed to take forever to get through the clouds When we finally got through them I saw the lights I also saw that we were getting closer to the ground. I was so excited to almost be in NYC! There was a bit of turbulance but nothing to horrible. We got closer and closer then all of the sudden the engines roared and we started going up. The captain came over the intercom again and explained that it was so windy he couldnt land just then. He told us we would circle the city then try it again. We did. And again as we got closer and closer to the ground I heard the same roar of the engine. Once we got up to a good altitude again the intercom came on and "Well Folks thats enough for me! We are heading to Albany. "(once again for the geographically challeged that is 100 miles north of NYC) So we headed to albany. The best way to describe that trip is to compare it to the movie "Airplane" Yah believe it or not their interpretation of bad turbulance isnt that far from the truth. And to make a great trip even better. People behind us began filling up the little white bags from the seatback pockets with their lunch. It was GROSS!
Once in albany we finally did get to expierience that rough landing. Even better was once we got on the ground we got to sit on the plane smelling the disinfectant for, oh idk TWO HOURS! When the finally got us out of the plane It was 3 am. We were all tired and glad to be alive as the led us to the baggage claim. Once we were through the security cheak point we got another surprise. SORRY FOLKS NO LUGAGE! So then we were sent to a hotel to sleep, the next day we were to get back on that same plane and try the trip over again. Needless to say my mom and I took the amtrack. Doing this we didnt get our bags until tuesday night(good excuse to go shopping). After this fiasco the trip was awesome and I can wait to visit new york again (maybe I'll drive next time) Also we got a free round trip flight to anywhere in the country... woo hoo can't wait to get back on an airplane... not.

ALL BECAUSE OF A STUPID POSTER

I am a Geek. Plain and simple, there is no better way of putting it. I saw a poster once and it was of a bunch of people and above each of their pictures were the words "I Geek..." then each of them had what they loved to do. When I saw this poster i thought "What Would I put on a poster that i Geeked?" (I don't know if geeked is a verb... but it is now). Well I love to run, long distances... Thats about as geeky as you can get with running. (farrell that isn't a bad thing). I've spent a lot of time in cross country, 6 years in fact. Made it to state twice with my team. Made it to state in the 3000(two mile) in track. So in other words I LOVE RUNNING... me gusta correr... Or I geek running.
So now that i had my poster quote all picked out i was.... oh wait i also enjoy music, well hold on I might need to add that in something about that cause in band i play the flute and i sing soprano in choir. I LOVE band trips and band camp (wow i hear the geek police sirens going off now) And there is something about makeing just the perfect harmony in choir that makes me want to jump with joy. SO I really like music too, so i think we can fit this in somewhere, maybe rephrase just alittle. "I am a 3000 running, soprano singing, band geek." A little wordy but it will do... Speaking of wordy my goodness i almost forgot i enjoy writing. I've been writing stories since before i knew how to write (I would come up with the stories and my brother would right them down then i would draw pictures with them). Not to mention the countless unfinished masterpieces in old notebooks scatered around my room (plus one story that is probably in timbuctoo after falling of the back of my dad's truck in 5th grade (sorry Hope)) So I also REALLY, REALLY like to write, oh wait and read... This Could get tricky. Jane Austen You are My weakness not to mention Charlotte Bronte. OK This is extremely difficult! OH NO.... Theatre... probably my biggest geek of all... whether i'm on stage or backstage or even just watching the play!!!!!! omg am i a theatre geek... this will definately not fit on a little square on a poster...
From this stupid poster i saw hanging in some hallway or classroom ive found that I can classify myself into one thing. I dont think i could give up very many of my activities to just focus on one. Ever since i was little i've just always been busy and thats how my life will hopefully always be. So what do you call a Cross country running, soprano singing, story writeing, classics reading, thespian,band geek? Well I guess you could write that out everytime you wanted to say it... if you had the time. But I would say it can be simply stated as geek, Even more simply put... Me.