Heather and I are sitting here in the Miami International Airport. Two words, Miami: moving walkways. Actually, in spite of my lack of sleep last night, I’m not that tired so the walking isn’t a problem, but I do think that international airports should have light rail to get around the airport quickly or at the very least moving walkways. It’s the principle of the thing, people.
It has been a long day already, but not a bad one by any means. My sweet dad dropped me off at the airport this morning, where Heather and I met up and proceeded to crack ourselves up telling ridiculous jokes, which is what happens when you’re both giddy from no sleep. It was a class act comedy hour. Everything one of us said provoked a laughing fit from the other person.
The day has been semi-uneventful. We ran into my brother Martin’s friend Lance in the airport in SLC. And then later on our flight to Dallas, another one of Martin’s friends, Andrew, was there with a whole crew of people going to Costa Rica. We all had trouble getting to our connecting flights when we got to Dallas. Our plane sat around in Salt Lake for close to an hour as they “[dealt] with a mechanical discrepancy with the plane.” The pilot was sure to let us know it wasn’t his fault. It was kind of random that he felt the need to say that. Heather and I had to sprint along with about 5 other people heading to Miami for a family reunion, but we made it.
So now we’re in Miami and in about 6 hours we’ll be in Lima hablando the espanol. It’s exciting. It’s this crazy mixture of feelings knowing we’re going out to this cool project, feeling a little bit nervous about having to switch into 100% Spanish after years of not speaking it regularly, being completely out of our comfort zones in a foreign country…but we’re both really excited and I’m so happy I have Heather with me. I already wrote this before, but Heather really is such a great friend and such an easy friend to be with. She just has this rad personality that meshes well with the likes of me, so that makes all of the other crazy transitions that much easier to deal with. We’ll probably board in a few minutes…I’m starting to feel tired emotionally and physically. I just hope we can get to a sacrament meeting tomorrow during our layover in Lima…
We miss everyone and have thought and talked about you guys all day. So much love to all our family and friends and congratulations to Casey for winning the Country Music Marathon in Nashville, Tennessee...or for at least finishing in great time! :)
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