So I got into norfolk fine. Flights were smooth and pretty short (both were less than an hour in the air), forgot how quick they feel on the east coast, last few trips have been to denver, phoenix and san diego…none of which are quick flights.
Guy in line ahead of me at security at albany airport had just played with billy joel in concert, had his trumpet with him (and what looked like a baritone case as well), thought that was interesting.
First flight into philadelphia was delayed…if you ever fly in or out of that airport, that probably isn’t a surprise to you. Very rarely go through there without a delay of some sort. Just more stressful when your layover is less than an hour. Also, if you have ever flown on a smaller airplane into philadelphia you also know they drop you off at the F terminal. This is, naturally, nowhere near any of the gates that their larger planes leave through. So you need to get a shuttle and then basically run to get to your next gate…at least if you are 30 minutes from departure and need to be somewhere in the middle of the B terminal, like I did. Luckily by the time I got to my gate (out of breath), they hadn’t started boarding yet…though they should have been 15 minutes into it already. Was relieved about that.
Was nice cause a friend of mine from church, jennifer fisher, was flying through philadelphia on my flight with her parents, so I got a chance to catch up with her while we waited in albany to leave.
Flights weren’t too crowded, so was nice to have some breathing room. Second flight landed in virginia about on time. Must not have flown us in over the nice part of the coastline around here, cause all I could see out the windows were old, rusted out navy ships and such. But I hear if you go down the road a little ways to virginia beach, that its actually nice there. Unfortunately I won’t have time for that.
Airport here is pretty though, actually have trees with flowers and GREEN leaves on them. Considering how depressingly long it is taking for any sign of spring to show up in ny, this was a welcome change for me 
Trip to hotel was fine, but got one of those talkative cab drivers. I don’t have a problem with people being friendly, its just that I’m an introvert, traveling really takes it out of me, so when my flights have finally all landed and I am on the way to the hotel, I don’t really feel like talking much past saying what hotel to drive me to. But I do appreciate he drove a lot slower than my san diego cab driver did, so wasn’t nearly as scary.
Had some room service and settled in for a little while before starting work on my term paper, which is how I will be occupying myself for the rest of the evening. Just as well, never much to do in hotels anyway, especially wednesday nights when no good shows are on.
Ok, back to working on the term paper…applications of biohydrometallurgy (or using bacteria for mining of metals)…is it sad that I find that interesting? Oh well
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