so - first lesson of visiting Austin - don’t ask a local where you can go line dancing with the locals…. this tends to lead to huge insultment of the locals who take pleasure in telling you that it will cost quite a lot in a taxi as it’s local in Arizona rather than Austin! d’oh!

as i actually managed to forget to bring the cable to upload photos from my camera, i thought that now might be a good time to reflect of my connecting flight from Chicago to Austin. firstly, we stepped onto the plane and wondered where the rest of it was… it was like a dinky little toy plane - but kind of amused by the ghetto travel decided it would be fun.

having taken our seats, one of the flight attendants took a seat in-front of us and talked really loudly about the fact the air hostess at the front of the plane had never done this before. we then had to sit there whilst the hostess tried to remember and demonstrate where the fire escapes were, followed by a struggle with the oxygen mask to try and open it. by now, as you can imagine, we were filled with confidence - which was cemented when the hostess sat in front of us said loudly “everyone check you’re belted up - we’re going to head up now”

within 10 minutes of take off - a 17 year old guy walks along the aisle, only for me to later discover that he was the pilot. honestly, i could go on to list the other hilarious events, but i think i could actually be in denial at the moment and so have blocked them from my memory.

on the upside however, they proved to be really caring when they made an announcment to say “we will be landing in 20 minutes, for this reason we will be turning on the lights. please therefore, if you have been asleep, please prepare for this by covering your eyes to allow them to adjust” - bless them….

well, i’ll keep you up to date with our progress here in Austin, i’ll try and get hold of a cable as they say a picture can say 1000 words - well if that’s the case, i have a hell of a lot to say. i’m going to leave you now to go and find a venue in which you can dance in a line

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