Oh the Adventures!

I've been flying for the last week or so, and it's been a blast! All kinds of new, challenging experiences and planes. Along with an unplanned road trip with Rick!

I had an overnight in Burbank, so Rick came to spend the day with me. I asked him if he wanted to hang out in Burbank for the rest of the day and I would come back and then we could drive to San Diego for my one day off before I went back up to Portland. One of my pilots heard us talking and was incredibly gracious and gave Rick his hotel room to hang out in for the next 5 hours while we were flying. After I got back, we drove to San Diego. 2 hours of 90's music, candy, and car dancing! I was so impressed with Rick and how flexible he was when I threw his schedule for a wild ride that day.

Monday morning I flew back to Portland to sit Reserve for 5 days. Right when I landed at 9 AM, I had been called for a trip. So I got ready at the airport and had some lunch. Then flew 7 trips on the EMB (little prop plane that sits 30 people) on Halloween! We had a few passengers that dressed up in costume and gave me candy on the planes, it was so much fun!

The night ended in Seattle for a short overnight (about 4-5 hours of sleep) and back to my little plane the next morning. So yesterday I had some interesting experiences, including having to take someone off the plane because she was "hung over" and throwing up regularly. It was the first time I had to do it, found it challenging to keep her from being upset as well as the other passengers that were now seeing their flight leave 20 minutes late. I'm glad I was able to do the right thing though.

Then my last two flights were on the Silver Bullet (as Skywest employees lovingly refer to it). It's a whole different configuration, one I had only seen pictures of. And of course it was a full house for my flights as I'm rushing around trying to remember where the heck everything was on the plane! I suddenly felt like it had been YEARS since training! I did manage to get everything under control and get everyone on the flights taken care of and we landed early both times!

What an adventure of a week! Now I'm in Portland on Reserve for three days, then this weekend, I'm flying trips out of LA to pick up time on my days off. I'm excited because I'm going to fly our biggest jets that I haven't ever gotten a chance to fly yet, here's to more experience!

Baby Salad!

Baby's first dinner out and what do all the aunts and uncle do to him?! Why throw him in a salad bowl on the table of course!

What a fantastic dinner, we all put in our useless two cents about what to name him too, and faught over who got to hold him, basically that kid is completely the center of attention at all times and we all make sure of it!

New Auntie Am!

I finally made it to Utah to be with this sweet little angel! Took me a couple days to make it, but I made it! Bidding and trading days paid off!

Somethings They Don't Tell You

I'm giving fair warning....this post isn't a happy go-lucky one. It's some very negative things that I need to get off my chest and out of my head so that I can work on finding positivity right now. SO, DON'T READ IT IF YOU DON'T WANNA HEAR IT!

When you go into training as a Flight Attendant, it seems all happy and perfect and like you're gonna have the time of your life in a new adventure. This is MOSTLY true, but there's a lot of things they don't warn you about that absolutely suck!

The friends you knew before training, and that swore were your best friends, have all but disappeared. Because, lets face it, out of sight out of mind. You have an incredible boyfriend that's a 1000 miles away and half the time you have no idea when you're going to see him next. You sit in a city that you know nobody but FA's in, so you're alone ALL the time. To top it of, they sent too many Reserves to that city so you don't actually fly hardly at all. You watch your heart float away in the clouds from your cinder block walled apartment and your mat on the floor. Yes, I said mat on the floor, because you can't afford a bed, or new tennis shoes, or your train ticket to get out of the apartment. You have incredible friends that you made in training, but you rarely see or talk to them because you got sent to opposite ends of the country and work different schedules. You don't get to go to any form of church often, because you're never in the same place. Your gym routine that once kept you sane, is all but dicintigrated. The wonderfully home cooked food you once loved happens once in a blue moon. And all of your belongings that once made you feel at home are in a storage unit, and you live out of 3 suitcases, 2 of which are flight bags.

I've been told this all gets better after you get off Reserve, I'm just beginning to wonder how much one person can take before they crack entirely?

Libby Made it on the News!!!

What a Day!!!

I reported to Portland this morning at 7:00 AM. Flew to San Francisco with a hour delay. We left from San Francisco almost an hour late, by this time I had figured out that this flight was my Check Ride (I.e. my testing flight to make sure I'm doing my job properly). We end up with a maintenance delay in Phoenix, which turned into a sand storm delay! On top of all this I'm supposed to leave on a trip tomorow morning for my testing on a new aircraft!

So basically I end up sitting in Phoenix for well over six hours. They will be putting me in a hotel in San Francisco tonight because I ran out of hours to work today. I fly back to Portland tomorrow and I'll catch up to my other trip on Saturday morning! What a crazy crazy adventure!!!!!

I just want to make it through this to get down to San Diego to see Rick this weekend!

Life of a FA!

More New Adventures!

Well....I'm moving again....but just across town haha! I'm moving onto PSU campus September 1st into college housing with 3 international master's students. I'm kind of excited about this move, it's much closer to downtown Portland and it's very close to the train. I like this already because it will actually be my place, not a crashpad. So I'll be sharing the living room and have a mattress on the floor, but it's MY space I don't have to move everything out everyday.

Wish me luck! I'm stoked!