Turbulence

I have decided to write about our trip out west in short stories... the first of which is called Turbulence. As you can probably tell from the title, this story is about our plane ride out and let me say..... it was a very interesting few hours.
We wake up at about 2:30 a.m. so that we can be at the airport two hours before our flight at 6:55 - even though it was a very early start, the beginning of our day wasn't too bad. As soon as our flight took off, it got a lot worse....
We had a connecting flight, so we flew Atlanta to Dallas - where they were experiencing some bad weather including rain and thunderstorms. Lets just say our ride was very bumpy!! It seemed like we felt every blow the weather had to give. It was the worst flight either of us had ever been on... There were brief thoughts of crashing and a whole lot of nervousness. Not to mention that our pilot did a questionable job.... it seemed like the whole flight he kept swaying the plane back and forth - from side to side - like a teeter totter; he would slow the plane down and then all of a sudden speed it up; and, he kept changing elevations - now, I feel like maybe he was trying to aviod some of the turbulence, but at the time it felt like he had no idea how to fly. Once we got to Dallas, we had to fly around the airport for about 20 minutes because the weather was still pretty bad; and when we were finally allowed to land, we were greeted by hard rain.
So, I'll briefly side note here and say that Alex doesn't like roller coasters. He hates them. He won't even go near them. They make him sick. Needless to say, our airplane ride that morning was about as close as it gets to roller coaster rides. Alex took his newspaper and made a little bag - just in case. He didn't throw up, but he was really sick after the flight and to add to it - our flight to Salt Lake was cancelled because of the weather.
The next flight to Salt Lake was full, so they put us on standby and all we could do was wait... two hours later - we luckily got on the next flight and we weren't that excited about it. though it was better than waiting three more hours for the next one. We got to our seats and Alex immediately closed his eyes. I am pretty sure he didn't open them until we landed in Salt Lake!! We did experience some turbulence at the beginning of our second flight, but it wasn't nearly as bad or for as long as the first one.
I seriously thought Alex was going to fall on the ground and kiss it once we landed!! He didn't, but that would have been an awesome picture!! We are still alive - Hooray... but after this trip - we are more likely to go places we can drive to :)
Stay tuned for more stories from our trip!