Day 141 - Long trip to Oklahoma

I'm finally back in Oklahoma. Wow, what a long trip that was! 22 hours!

I left Childs hall around 7:00. I got to Gatwick airport around 9:30 and was sitting on the plane around 11:00. As we were starting to take off at 12:00, a lady on my flight passed out, so we had to return to the gate so the paramedics could come. We were ready to leave again around 12:45, but then there was an announcement saying the RADAR at Gatwick airport was down and no planes could take off. When it finally was fixed, we lost our place in the queue and had to wait a while to take off. We finally took off at 1:30, after sitting on the plane for 2 1/2 hours.

So I was on that plane for over 12 hours. I had a very bad cold & sore throat, the worst headache I've had in several months, and had only slept 1 hour in the past 2 days. The first 4 hours of the flight were miserable. The last 6 hours were even worse. I was SO happy to get off that plane!

I arrived in Houston at 5:40, right as my flight to Oklahoma City was leaving. So I had to take another flight a few hours later. I got back to Norman shortly after 11:00.

posted by Matt @ 7:01 PM