On Friday, October 7th I boarded the plane at Ronald Reagan National Airport at around 11:30 AM to make the first of two flights to Fargo North Dakota. It was my best friend Allison Pipers wedding and I wasn’t going to miss it for the world! I’m rather comfortable in my expensive seat, ready to nap away then next two hours and 19 minutes. The turbulence was on the rough side at the beginning of the flight, but nothing I couldn’t handle. We were about 45 minutes from Minneapolis when I saw people running up and down the aisle. I quickly took out my earphones and started looking around franticly. I noticed a large box being quickly brought up to the front of a plane in the hands a flight attendant. I saw that the wording started with a ‘D’ but I couldn’t quit decipher exactly what it said. After about 5 minutes we were informed that a gentleman in first class had a minor heart attack and the pilot was planning on kicking it into high gear to get us on the ground. What I failed to inform earlier is that we sat on the runway for 25 minutes before taking off from Washington, therefore making us 25 minutes behind schedule. The pilot came on the overcome and announced that it was roughly 45 knot winds in the Minneapolis area, therefore prepare for a rough ride.
Great.
We raced to the runway with high speed and the plane was whipping back and forth, it felt like the wings were going to touch down first. We ended up getting there 10 minutes AHEAD of schedule. The paramedic’s met us at the runway to get the gentlemen off the flight as soon as possible.
Okay, flight one is complete.
It’s 3:00 PM and I’m preparing myself to board yet another flight. My head stopped spinning but my stomach hadn’t. As I step on my short 32 minute flight to Fargo, I thought I was going to faint. There were two seats on either side and about 10 rows deep. So I’m going to get back up in the air with these high winds in this? Seriously.
Like I expected, it was a crazy and very nauseous ride to Fargo. The 32 minute ride felt like hours of pure hell.
I land in Fargo at 4:35 PM. My mom picks me up at the airport and headed to get some medicine for my motion sickness. Nothing a few hours at Macy’s couldn’t handle ;)
Allison’s wedding:
BEAUTIFUL!
It was so wonderful to be back in North Dakota to visit friends and family. I had such a blast at Allison and Jacob’s wedding.
Party Bus: Check
Dancing: Check
Driving to Michaels: Check.
I got home last night and my flights were actually very nice. Very little turbulence and went pretty quick. Jacob picked me up at the airport, stopped quickly at the grocery store and then spent the night cheer for the Green Bay Packers. 5-0 Baby.
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