Flying!

I got to the airport in St. Louis, and got on my plane.  It was a little tiny plane; I had a window seat and an aisle seat.  I took some pictures of the clouds.  It was the first time I have ever seen any of the great lakes.  Most of the flight we were like in the clouds so I couldn’t see much.  That flight was over really fast, and then I was at Chicago.  The tunnel from the B concourse to the C concourse was amazing.  It had lights above and it was all dark.  I took some pictures.  That was the first time I saw and used a moving walkway.  After that they seemed to be all over the place.  The gate was really easy to find.  I still had like an hour to go before I got to board the plane so I used the moving walkways to explore the terminal.  I found a sandwich shop and got a 7 dollar sandwich, the last US money I spent.  So after I ate, I went tot go to the gate and man it was crowded.  Everybody was there.  After a lot of waiting the plane was delayed a bit and more waiting.  Finally I got to board the plane.  I had a window seat so I had to have Dan, the guy sitting in the middle get up and while he was up, I had him put my backpack in the overhead storage.  So I ended up sitting with Dan and Dom, two guys from London.  They were nice.  I even made a “not my cup of tea” joke and they were like yeah that gets old quick.  The dinner was pretty gross, but I ate the salad.   I tried to sleep, but I don’t think I did.  We got a snack right before we landed.  It was strawberry yogurt and a mini banana loaf.  It was really good, and I got apple juice in a can.  Well, the sunset and sunrise are so cool to watch from above the clouds.  The sun coming through the clouds looked a lot like that part on the lion king.  Well I finally got off of the plane and made it through the immigration line and stuff.  I got to the area where the atms and currency exchange places were.  I got 50 GBP from the ATM for a rate of 0.73.  It was better than the 0.83 from the other place.  Well after that I went to look for the Heathrow Express.  I bought a ticket and got on the train.  I rode backwards on the train.  After the train I went on the tube.  The first time I tried to get on it I guess I wasn’t fast enough, the doors closed as I was walking towards it.  Oh well, the next one was only like a minute later.  I managed to get to the right place.  Well I got up to the street level then went on the wrong street, but eventually I managed to get to the right spot.