list of firsts

i'm going to be completing a list of "firsts" tomorrow, and i just wanted to list them all out here, because i think about things differently when i am reading them and can see it in front of me. okay, so here we go:

tomorrow it will be my first time to...

-go inside the BWI airport
-fly on an airplane
-be in Indiana
-be at Indianapolis
-go inside the Indianapolis airport
-only be in a city for 55 minutes
-be in Denver
-be in Colorado
-go inside the Denver airport
-see those wonderful mountains with my own eyes instead of seeing them on TV or in pictures
-be in the Mountain Standard Times Zone
-travel just with a friend
-Travel with Allergies
-Travel with Benadryl
-Travel with an EpiPen
-use my new luggage
-be that far away from home
-be in a state that isn't connected to any other states i've been to(i know, i make it sound like an island)
-see my friend's house that they moved into several years ago

well, that's all i can think of for now. it's quite the list. but i'm sure it'll be great! i have lots of podcasts, music, Noelle, God, my Bible, and a book to keep me company. oh, and how could we forget my sudoku book?

i guess i'll try to update this at least once while i'm out there. it would be really fun to post something from out there. we'll see.

Wow

okay, so most everyone knows that pretty soon i will be trying something new. i will be flying in an airplane. it will also be my first time going anywhere that lies west of the Mississippi River. thankfully, i do not have to take in this adventure all by myself. a friend of mine will be coming alone with me, being my personal expert on flying, and making sure i'm not an unaccompanied minor.(for pete's sakes, i'm turing 18 in two and a half months. but it's okay, she just turned 18 last March. talk about beating the system.)

there's sort of a fear i have of flying right now. it's partly because i've never flown before in my life. i've never even gotten to ride in a helicopter of hot air balloon or anything. sometimes when i really think about it, and think about what could happen to the plane, or while i'm on the plane, it kinda scares me. a lot of that is just because it's unknown, so i'm not entirely sure of what to be afraid of.

i really need to start getting everything together to start packing. i've slowly been getting everything together, but i need to finish that process. i feel like i have so much to do. at least it's not my entire family going on vacation. if it was, we'd have to empty out the refrigerator, and giving gallons of milk away, and all kinds of craziness.

Through this time of getting ready, i've learned a lot. i learned why my family has never flown instead of driving somewhere.(it's sooooo expensive. way too expensive to take five people all at once)

all in all, i know it will be one of the most exciting adventures in my life. and hey, maybe i'll write a song from it. so i guess if you could be praying for me, that'd be great. i will be leaving in one week.