Today we start our travels! The drive up to Seattle was fairly uneventful except for my spur-of-the-moment trip to downtown Seattle while looking for the airport an hour before boarding. Apparently I missed all the signs for the Sea-Tac airport and decided to add a little bit of stress to the moment. How typical of me 
The check-in and boarding process went very smoothly – since we were running a little late, they cut us to the front of the line at the security checkpoint. I must confess, I was feeling a little smug and very privileged as I looked at the long line of 100+ people waiting to go through security. The flight itself was boring and long – roughly nine hours in the air.
I was surprised at the choices of food they offered. Josh had the chicken while I had the salmon with pasta. They offered us wine to go with the meal, but we both politely declined. Not that I don’t like a glass of wine now and then, I just have an aversion to drinking alcohol while flying. Anyways, the salmon tasted like salmon but looked like halibut – pale and white instead of the bright orange and pink I am used to. It must have been real fish though, as I found a bone stuck in my teeth partway through the meal. Quite a far cry from the usual fare of soggy vegetarian lasagna or “chicken” sandwich they usually give out.
The seats on British Air are quite nice – each seat has their own flat screen tv and the seats themselves recline further than any other airplane I’ve been on. Each seat also has a footrest that folds out. Very nice indeed. We were seated right behind the bulkhead separating first class from the peasants, so we both had plenty of legroom for the whole trip.
Nathan picked us up from the airport in Basel, Switzerland – the airplane was running a little over an hour late and picking up the luggage took about 20 minutes, so he was patiently waiting for us out in the little corridor just past customs. I am so glad he waited and just didn’t leave us there…
I believe that’s all for now – I will try to figure out how to get pictures uploaded from the camera here pretty soon – I managed to leave the USB cable back at home, so getting pictures up on here might be a little interesting.
