Back in time

As I excitedly get ready for the show "Eat Your Science" hosted by Alton Brown I am thinking about times, trips I've been excited to do and can't help but remember a rather important experience. This was my senior year theater trip. There were a lot of firsts for me on this journey. My first time on a plane, my first time at a Broadway show, my first time to travel without parents and not with my church. Low supervision and lots of fun. I remember going through security (much less difficult back in 1996 than it is now), I remember the bus ride, the nerves and excitement that fluttered through my stomach.

After a day of classes and watching the clock that barely seemed to move it was finally time to meet at the school theater classroom and load up for the trip. The more outgoing students sang show tunes, there was laughter, a lot of smiling on the bus ride to the airport. I was glad to have a couple good friends who were also in theater to be going on this trip.  I have to pause in my writing as I remember this trip with some fondness, there is so much more detail that I remember than I can fit into this particular blog. Definitely more stories for another day. But that journey, the ride to the airport, the closeness of a friend, the wonder and excitement of a trip without being watched closely.  I remember getting on the plane and was terrified, my classmate gave me some gum to help my ears pop when the plane took off. I chewed that gum like my life depended on it while the plane streaked down the runway and lifted into the air. I saved the bag of peanuts from that flight and the wings I received from the flight attendant.  What an amazing trip, full of feelings I'll never forget!