A Spanish Birthday Celebration - It's Time!! (Day 1)
August 30th, 2015 I've been here before. Not at this exact position, flying 35,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean en route to Madrid. But the same situation. You spend several hours in a smallish (though technically "Premium") seat, jockeying for the best position to try and get some kind of sleep, only to fail miserably. It can't help but fail miserably. And instead of sleeping, you poke though the In-Flight Entertainment, searching for movies that will keep you occupied for the next number of hours, or read the book that you downloaded on the iPad, preferably one set in a dystopian future (because apparently there isn't anything but a future that is dystopian). Or both. You do anything you can to keep your mind off of the fact that you aren't sleeping and you will be miserable when you land. This trip, though?? This trip took a long while for us to even get to this place in the sky. Spain has always been on the list. When talking ab...