Traveling to The Airport

Lizy was upset I got a regular Lyft.

“How much did you save, ten dollars?” she asked.

“I didn’t look at the prices,” I said, “I just ordered a normal Lyft out of habit.”

“Well we’ll have to send it away and get a new one.”

The car seemed small for Lyft. The driver was blasting Spanish music, while wearing noise cancelling earbuds, which I could tell annoyed Lizy, because it’s something I’ve seen her dad do and it annoyed her then.

The driver and I were somehow able to squeeze all our stuff in the trunk and front seat. Theo, Lizy, and I squeezed into the back of the car. It was really snug with Lizy and I sitting against the car seat. I was being pushed right into the car door. But we were in the car and all our stuff was in the car and we were off to the airport.

When we were half way to the airport it hit me, in the commotion of packing all our stuff into the car, I had forgotten to change into vans. I was still wearing the crocs I had worn to pack the car. Now I didn’t have any shoes to wear to Lizy’s graduation.

The Airport

We bought lunch at the airport even though I had packed tomato and cheese sandwiches. When would we eat the sandwiches now? I was planning on eating them on the flight. There’s no way I’d still be hungry. I didn’t think Lizy would be amenable to eating them for dinner. Lizy wasn’t bothered at all by the dilemma, but finding the right moments to eat the four sandwiches I had packed would be something I would mull over for the rest of the trip.

I don’t want to ruin the suspense, but I eventually ate all the sandwiches.

The Flight

The flight felt very fast. I finished reading Tamburlaine, the Marlowe play. I tried to take Theodore up to see the cockpit, but when I asked the flight attendant she told no one was allowed in there. I could swear I had been to the cockpit on a flight as a kid.

“When did you remember going?” she asked, “Since I’ve been working there’s been a security barrier in the cockpit.”

I guess he’ll have to become a pilot if he wants to see the inside of the cockpit.

I tried to use the internet to debug an issue with the Bedrock RDS crawler for work. The internet was so bad at first I thought, I couldn’t even get through the portal to pay for the internet. Halfway through the flight I tried again and was finally able to pay for the internet, but that was about all I was able to do. Lizy saw me and our neighbor across the aisle fighting the internet to open anything on the web. She said, if there was justice in the world everyone that paid for the internet on the flight would get their money back. Of course as the reader probably knows we don’t live in a perfectly just world and neither of us got our money back.

The Hotel Near the Airport

It was dark by the time we got our luggage and headed outside to get a shuttle to our hotel. There was a hotel attached to the airport. We could see it from where we were waiting for the shuttle. I had booked a hotel we had to take a shuttle to. I probably had saved a little money or I had thought it would be less noisy or something. I’m not sure why exactly.

“You couldn’t just book the Hilton?” Lizy said, “Too convenient?”

“They gotta do what they gotta do, honey,” said a woman waiting for different shuttle bus with her husband.

The shuttle bus came after we had been waiting for some time in the dark.

We were staying a run of the mill Hyatt hotel. I had to stack all our stuff precariously on one baggage cart since Lizy was carrying Theodore. Lizy headed off ahead of me and I carefully pushed the cart behind her. I was slower than her with the luggage and she got to the end of a long hallway, which I had initially assumed contained all the room on the first floor of the hotel, ahead of me and I saw her disappear behind around a corner. When I finally got to that corner she was way ahead in the next hallway. This next hallway had the appearance of being almost comically long. But our room wasn’t in this hallway either. We turned around another bend and at the very end of this hall we had the very last room. The farthest room from the lobby in the entire hotel.

Lizy, as expected, did not want to eat the sandwiches for dinner so I put them in the hotel mini fridge and ordered a deep dish pizza from a nearby restaurant. Lizy went to take a shower and Theodore who had been a joy the entire day finally lost it from sheer exhaustion. He cried inconsolably for ten minutes. The only thing that finally calmed him down was me singing the Swimming Swimming song while doing the actions. He looked at me trying to stay calm. Trying to enjoy the moment. Trying his best to not let the tiredness cause him to cry. He was such a good kid.

He fell asleep in Lizy’s arms watching me sing a little bit before the pizza arrived.

We ate in silence to avoid waking Theodore up.