Long Day (Jan. 25)

Today is one of my longest days in a very long long time. Fortunately, today has been a very good day.

You know you woke up too early when you check out even before the hotel restaurant is open for breakfast. I woke up at 5AM today (someone should outlaw early morning meetings)! Since the restaurant is not open, I have to grab a cup of coffee and bagel from the espresso stand instead. After a quick breakfast and pick up my coworkers, we head to our Flight Test Training.

I can't believe how much fun I've in the Flight Test Training. This is definitely an atypical occurrence. I learned a lot of survival skills that will be very useful if accident happen on/with the plane. The physiological lesson reminded me a lot of my diving classes. We even get to play with some flight hardware. Very cool! Funny/interesting thing: A New Testament is part of some survival kit; so for Christians that survive an airplane crash, God is there with them ;P. The Flight Test Training is definitely the best work-related class I ever took.

Afterward, my coworker and I went to Daniel's Broiler for lunch. It was a beautiful day in Seattle. It was so sunny that when I look at it, I thought it's summer. But when I step outside, my whole body shivered because it's only 40F (COLD!). Thankfully, we got an indoor table that overlook the gorgeous union lake.

Since Daniel's Broiler is a famous steak house, we both got steak again. The steak here are very good (according to my coworker, the meat eater, the steak here is much better than 13 Coins'). I also got the lobster bisque (very delicious). It delighted me when they serve it by presenting a plate full of lobster chunks, then pour the bisque on top. We were both quite full but I still crave for something sweet and he doesn't want to be out-eat by a girl, so we shared a molten chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream. The dessert was fantastic. Both of us can't help but to amaze that we ate AWESOME desserts (and heart-clogging steaks) on both days.

Since we got time to kill before the flight, I took him around Seattle and show him the tourist spots. When we got to the airport and went the security line, I got stuck for 20 minutes. The x-ray found metal in my luggage but after going through my stuff, they still couldn't figure out why. My stuff ended up gettting scan 5 times. At the end, they found my missing necklace (hahah). I was very happy!

I took a nap on the plane, which is good since I've dinner plan. Dinner was good and so was drinks. And now I am home, in bed, almost 3AM and my brain is fried so I am going to sleep because I've to wake up at 7am to volunteer.

Good night!