Flight path

I’m currently flying from Frankfurt, Germany to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and then after a short layover will continue to Kigali, Rwanda. It will be difficult for me to keep myself in the airport in Addis, rather than running out and finding the friends that I made the last time I was there. We could do an impromptu dance party at and Ethiopian restaurant like last time…only many of my dear friends from around the globe will not be in Addis…so I suppose I will stay in the airport where I belong.

Just as we entered African air space I looked out the window and saw a glowing pink-lemonade patch of clouds, surrounded by the normal lamb tails (which are also beautiful). What is it making that beautiful patch? Just before the pink-lemonade phenomenon, I was looking down on the mountains of Athens.  I’ve never been to Greece, but after seeing those beautiful peeks from above, it’s been added to my bucket list.

Once when I was flying over the mid-west of the United States I saw out my window a billowing black/grey heap of clouds.  The rest of the sky was a blanket of pale gray and then there was one huge nob of black clouds rising higher into the atmosphere.  While watching this mound and contemplating, I suddenly saw the entire heap flash with light and turn completely white.  It continued like this for many minutes, I could even see the individual streams of lightning make their way down the cloud.

It was a seriously amazing thing to see a lightning storm from above. I could actually SEE the lightning where it was being created…AMAZING…and couldn’t help myself from picturing a mini-Zeus standing on a cloud forming the little bolts and plummeting them down to the Earth below.

I love to fly.  The sunrises and sunsets are always beautiful from the vantage point of a plane. This is why you will find me in a window seat on every single flight I take (unless it’s completely impossible and the person at the check-in counter is immune to my most pitiful pouty face). Learning how to fly a plane is on the verge of being on my bucket list but I hesitate to include it because I have such a big bucket already.

My bucket runeth over.

If I could choose a super power, it would definitely be flight.  And I would build some sort of a side car for Sophie (her super power would be getting over her fear of heights) J