Day 0.2 Seattle to London (Deija)

Yesterday was hectic. In and out of Airports all day, and into the next. We started in Seattle at 5:10am, waiting in front of Icelandair for about 40 minutes until we realized that our flight was actually out of Canada Air... So slightly later than we had hoped we began our long day of sitting, waiting, unloading and reloading backpacks, taking off our shoes for security and listening to a teenage boy talk about extremely random information on everything from math, science, literature, world languages, and playlist preferences to where he went last summer and how many exchange students his parents had when they were kids. 

Sea-Tac to Toronto wasn't all that bad, we were all nervous, slightly hungry, and tired because we got up early. I had the most amazing idea ever, why not stay up all night, get ready uber early in the morning for the flight, not sleep on the plane, be jet lagged, still not sleep and expect to beat it!

Muahahah!!! 

*Evil Plan = Failed*

After our five hour delay in French Canada, which all three of us now call "Bonjour, Merci," we finally set out for Iceland. On this flight Auna and I started speaking with this teenager from (DRUM ROLL PLEASE!) Portland, Oregon! Bam said the lady! We all clicked, talking about school, music, angle of descent on the plane... You know, normal teenage conversation. So it turns out this kid is actually kind of a genius. He is getting his diploma early...etc. Well this brings us to talking of his family, (OMG they're sitting in the next row over! What a crazy random happenstance,) and how his parents met because the dad went to Indonesia during high school and stayed with this girls family, and the next year she stayed with his family...Now guess what! They're married with two kids! Whoop whoop! So on this flight from Toronto to Iceland I was suppose to get some sleep, but instead stayed up all night talking with Cal. In the wee minutes of morning, aka 3am Iceland time, I noticed that a light of some sort was coming out from underneath the shade, I pulled it up a little and what I saw was beautiful. We were flying over Greenland and the sun was rising, it was a quiet pink color with a tint of orange on the layer closer to the surface. All this mixed in with the fact that the whole country was covered in snow, white, crisp snow, gave me the impression that it went on indefinitely. I woke Auna (who is VERY hard to wake by the way) and showed her and Cal what they were missing. It was amazing. Now that she was awake, Auna, Cal, and I talked some more and brought up the fact that she was figuring out the angle of descent of the last plane we were on. Well, being ourselves, Auna and I took Cal to a challenge that we feared we would fail miserably. He was a genius...right?

Well apparently, he didn't have Cardwell as a math teacher, so he never had to memorize the unit circle, and we had.... So we felt super smart. :) As he is trying to find the Cot of 60 degrees on his iPod graphing calculator app, Auna and I get our answer and keep our mouths shut so he can TRY To figure out the answer before us. It doesn't happen...obviously. ;) Our calculator skills gots him beat. 

Deija