All Aboard the Colum-bus!

I wish I had posted each day of the Ohio trip with a clever title about Christopher Columbus...
Or Day 1: Nina, Day 2: Pinta, Day 3: Santa Maria because that would have been funny...
Oh 20/20 vision

I haven't taken many pictures since we've been here...but here's what I have:

On the flight from Orange County, we all took out the in-flight magazine to see what movie was playing (The Family Man--apparently we were on a flight in the year 2000).

I turned to the page with the crossword puzzle and asked if it was a travel faux pas to fill in the puzzle in a book that is left behind...We decided it would be best to fill one of our three out together. This way, someone could still enjoy the other two and marvel at our wisdom, having finished it.

We worked together, reading clues, making guesses...I was so happy: I love love crossword puzzles...

My favorite clue and answer in this puzzle:

Clue: Line sung by a group of men getting dressed?
Answer: Don we now our guy apparel

We were only two answers away from completion...then Jake gave up and found the answers in the back of the magazine. To be fair, they were words that none of us had heard before.

Then, Griff points out the paragraph in the bottom corner:
Evidently, you are more than welcome to fill out the puzzle in a book that is shared because there are plenty more to go around.
We landed in Dallas, ate some Chili's, and walked down to catch our connection. We boarded the plane by walking on to the tarmac and watching them load our luggage in...Jake made dozens of jokes comparing this plane to those in Kitale (it's actually a bigger plane there).

Griff's head was almost to the ceiling in his seat...and he was the only seat in his row (row of 3, row of 3, row of 3, Griff)

This looks like just the left-hand side of the plane...it's actually a view all the way across...
We saw this sign in the Columbus airport...apparently Pease is a lawyer now.
We had dinner at a pub called "Bag O' Nails": $2 appetizers and $5 entrees...so cheap, but really delicious...

The next morning we saw a sign for Hoover Dam, another for Northwest Passage

and then, from the drive-thru at Wendy's:

I apologize to those of you that are offended by this word, but I did not make this sign...I merely photographed it as proof that things are ridiculous in Columbus.

Everyone else arrived Thursday night or Friday morning: Jana and Leigh (and Lola), Jeff and Amanda, Kurt, Brian, Leo, Mike, Megan, the Fields family, Josh and Neely, Phil, Tim Timmons and band (including David Hughes).

Allison Murray's here, too...but I haven't seen her yet...and Riley, Brazel and Nadim are working in the store...have run in to Shan a few times already...what a fun mix of friends.

We're on Day 2 of the conference...I've had 9 hours of sleep in the last 2 days. I think Jake's had about 5...Griff had 11 last night...