The Departure and the aeroplane

December 24: The day we left

The day we left, there was a lot of hustle-bustle.  My father woke me in the morning and told me, 'we made a mistake about the date we were leaving.'  The way it happened is that my grandfather told my dad to check the time they were supposed to arrive, and when my dad looked at it, he saw that we had to go today.   I jumped out of bed to help.  The way I helped my mom and dad was by not getting in the way.   Apart from that, I basically did nothing. 

We had three hours to pack and rush to the airport.  Our friends Subbu and Leigh came over to help us pack and get the house ready.   We left them in charge of our house and went off to the airport in a taxi.    The person in the taxi, because I was so well behaved, gave me a pack of gum that had ten pieces.  Sadly, he did not know that I didn't like gum. 

At the airport, it was junk food day.  We had orange juice and a chocolate croissant at Minneapolis airport.  Then we flew to Chicago, where we were for six hours before catching our plane to India.  I had two hot dogs, and two slices of pizza. 

We also bought some books for the trip.  We got the first three in the Percy Jackson series: The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, and The Titan's Curse. 

December 25: Christmas in the plane

There was basically no Christmas in the plane.  The first plane trip was fourteen hours long.  That’s long, isn’t it? It felt so long.  I basically didn't sleep at all.   I read Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, and started the second one as the trip was ending.    Then we had a stopover in Abu Dhabi, where we bought lots of Guylian chocolate for all my family and grandparents.  Yummmmmmy...