So I leave for Taiwan today, my flight is supposed to go from NYC to San Francisco and then transfer to Nagoiya, Japan to Taipei, Taiwan. *Cry* I wanted to go to Kamsai, the floating airport. Anyway so I'm on the plane and I realized something. Traveling by plane is kind of scary. First off you're constricted to a seat, the sun from the windows is blinding and is really irritating. You're shifted around due to the plane turning and stuff and it gets a little nauseating. Then theres also the sudden change of altittude and landing/takeoff, omfg! Yeah it's kind of scary just knowing that any malfunction could end up with the plane nosediving to hell with zero chance of survival.

That's when the plane captain spoke on the intercom. "We're having a mechanical problem and we're going to have to land in Kansas. We apologize for the inconvenience." I was a little freak out. But we landed safely. I didn't think we'd stay there too long but then we ended staying there for over 7 hours!

I spoke to the flight attendant person about missing my flight to Japan and they said they they would just book me on the next flight. No problem there, I can stay at my aunt Mary's house and hang out with my cousins, Elaine, Bruce and Timothy. The only problem was I didnt have a phone and my laptop's wireless connection wasn't working, great.....

So I walked around the airport for a bit to buy a pen I write my journal with. But I ended buying a shitty Kansas pen which I will post up pictures for. I'm freaking out in the airport and getting really agitated at the fact that I was so out of reach from people. I'm really feeling angry for losing my phone and I just felt so powerless. I decided to finally beg someone to borrow their laptop and they were very nice. So I wrote an e-mail to my uncle or Rex's dad if some of you remember him. It's a good thing I had it on gmail because I was able to retrieve his e-mail address and phone number.

We finally leave for San Fran and we get there 3 hours later. I asked this really cute hippy chick to borrow her phone. I forgot to mention I spoke to her briefly and mentioned my dilemna and she offered to lend me her phone. I told her I would only call my dad because I didn't want to use up her minutes or whatever. She was really cool with it but I didnt want to take advantage of her, so I did exactly what I said. I called my dad up and got my aunt Mary's number. Success! So I ran to a pay phone and called her....first try no answer but I left a message. At this point I decided to go to customer service and spoke to them about the whole situation. They siad the next flight is tomorrow. I saw a lot of people talk about hotels and then I thought. Hey I can just stay over at aunt Marys! So after that I went to the pay phone for try number 2. She picked up! I then told her that my plane broke and that I'm staying over for the night, she was delighted! A few minutes later my cousin, Elaine picked me up.

Not much to say here now, I hung out with my Elaine and Bruce tonight and went to eat some Korean BBQ. The waitress was really attractive and I wanted to take a picture of her but I was to shy to ask. Anyway heres a shot of the street.

Btw my final conclusion of Kansas:

It sucks.