Day 1 will be split in two, maybe three parts because it was such a long day. This first part started at work. I work at a church and we left on Easter Sunday, or the Super Bowl for us. So it was a very busy and tiring morning, which is what I had hopped for because I wanted to be exhausted by the time we got on our plane. You see I have a problem, I just can’t sleep on planes. It doesn’t matter how smooth or bumpy a flight it is, or even how tired I am, I just can’t sleep on planes. This time though I was determined to get some sleep so our first day wasn’t a complete waste of exhaustion. My secret weapon was going to be two fold; first we woke up very early to try to be as tired as possible by our 5:30pm flight and second, melatonin.
We board our plane and the “first world problems” start. First is, I am a tall man and I thought I might have more leg room than domestic flights. Nope, I was wrong, economy is economy no mater where you fly. Also, the entertainment systems were out (for like the first 30 minutes of the flight) which was a bummer. Lastly, and of course the worst thing, we realized about an hour into our flight that the air vents over our seats weren’t working. All of this made it hard to get totally comfortable. Of course, the melatonin never kicked in either, ugh.
Long story short, sleeping on a plane just isn’t going to happen for me without a couple of things, like first class accommodations and probably some prescription sleep aids. Again the lack of air vents didn’t help. It was like a 10-15 degree difference from my window seat to the aisle of the plane. There was one good thing for this nervous flier though and that was how smooth the flight was. It was the smoothest plane flight ever! Also big props go out to Virgin Atlantic! Even with these issues they were awesome, so chipper and happy and the voice over lady was hilariously overly British. Which even made the British folks next to us chuckle.
Before we knew it we were down and in England!
Travel Tales From BB-8 