Moi!

Obviously ecstatic to get on the flight.

We're off to Finland! I feel like we have been planning our trip forever and now the time has finally come! This was my first international flight so I was concerned about how long we were going to be sitting in one place. our first flight was to jfk where we had a three hour layover but we were able to pass the time with cheap chinese food and chips ahoy.

The first thing i noticed when we got on the plane was the unusually tall, blonde stewardesses which was the first sign that we were going to a nordic country. the other large give away that this was not going to be your usual in-country flight was that all the safety directions were delivered in at least six different languages. is this part of their job description? can you only be a stewardess if you speak twelve different languages? i need to look this up.

if you plan on flying to any nordic country i would highly recommend finnair. it was a really great flight and there were TV screens in the back of the seats in front of you so we were able to choose what movie we wanted to watch. you could also choose between TV shows as well as music playlists. i recommend listening to finnish classical or finnish easy listening.

apparently on the flight over no one could sleep so when we got off the plane we all looked like zombies and were all disheveled. i tried my hardest to fall asleep but there were a couple of things that were out of my control that decided to keep me up for a majority of the flight. one large problem was that my seat was broken and couldn't recline...bummer. the lady in front of me decided to recline her seat all the way back...which i am happy that homegirl could get her sleep on but i am not a petite person so i cannot fit into small areas for long amounts of time. sara likes to say that it looked like i was in a bubble the entire time. i liked pretending that i was a mime and stuck inside a glass box since i couldn't move anywhere. anyway there was also a small child sitting next to me that was adorable at first....then she put on her headphones and insisted on screaming at the TV since obviously she couldn't hear herself. needless to say the flight over there was enjoyable but i wouldn't want that same situation to happen to me again.

overall, international flights are not as terrible as i was expecting. try a test drive before you sit down to make sure that your seat works...but there is always a possibility that it doesn't and you're forced to sit up straight for 7 hours. obviously avoid small children at all costs when flying over three hours.

that's all for now. - Megan