{"id":376,"date":"2005-11-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-27T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=431"},"modified":"2005-11-26T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-27T06:00:00","slug":"this-is-the-flight-that-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"this is the flight that never ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Late Thanksgiving!!!<\/p>\n<p \/>I&#8217;m home from vacation. Our flight arrived about 5pm this evening. It&#8217;s currently 2am in Prague, and therefore I think I&#8217;m going to be hurting tomorrow. I&#8217;m trying to force myself to stay awake until 9 or so, which is proving to be a challenge. I&#8217;m dizzy!<\/p>\n<p \/>I&#8217;ve already mostly unpacked my suitcase and piled up a ton of souvenirs on my dresser. The cats are taking turns sitting on my lap. I should probably call my mom at gramma&#8217;s house before I go to sleep, but I&#8217;m afraid of that time commitment. Also, I have nearly 400 photos to edit!<\/p>\n<p \/>The trip was incredible and I&#8217;m about to cry again thinking back on it. I will, of course, make a massive travel journal entry about it at some point in the next couple weeks, but for now you can check out the <a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/queen_of_subtle\/sets\/1460550\/' target='out'>weird photos on Flickr<\/a>, and my top-10 moments list that I compiled on the jam-packed DC-10 from Amsterdam, to distract myself from the fact that we were convinced the flight was never, ever going to end. But it did! 40 minutes early, too!<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<ul>\n<li>Walking across the Charles Bridge, and rubbing the tiny figure of Saint John Nepomuk being thrown into the Vltava for good luck.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li>Drinking absinthe.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li>Setting foot onto the tarmac at the Budapest airport.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li>Having dinner in the dining car on the way to Prague.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li>Walking the streets Franz Kafka walked.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li>Examining our stamps after one of several passport checks on the train, to discover we were entering Slovakia. It was like a bonus country. I got to see Bratislava and Brno, cities I&#8217;d heard a lot about in my Russian classes but never really expected to see.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li>The view of the red-tiled roofs and spires of Prague from the top of the clock tower.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li>Seeing the coastline of Europe for the first time in over 10 years.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li>Relaxing with a bunch of naked Hungarian women in the mineral baths at the Gellert Hotel.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<li>The beginning of the Christmas festival last night in Old Town Square in Prague: fluffy, perfect snow falling, roasted chestnuts, a gigantic Christmas tree, grilled pastries, a choir performing the Carmina Burana, little booths with food and crafts, and a huge crowd of people from all over the world.\n<p \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p \/>OK, now I&#8217;m really sniffly. I&#8217;m going to go make that call to mom and pass out for the night.<\/p>\n<p \/>I didn&#8217;t want to leave there, but I&#8217;m still glad to be home.<br \/>Jenni<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div align='center'>\n<table border='0' width='400' style='border:1px dotted #cccccc;' cellpadding='8'>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div align='center'><b>your questions, answered<\/b><\/div>\n<p \/><i>q:<\/i><br \/>how much money do you make in a year? you go on lots of awesome vacations!<\/p>\n<p \/><i>a:<\/i><br \/>It would be tactless of me to answer that with a dollar amount, but I will point out that I work as a contractor in a fairly lucrative field, and I&#8217;m single with no financial obligations other than rent and a car payment. So yeah, I have a decent disposable income, which I prefer to direct towards one of my biggest passions: travel. I enjoy collecting those experiences. I want to see everything. So instead of spending my money on a fancy house or big-screen TV, that&#8217;s what I do. And I love it.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div align='center'><a href='http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/ask.asp'>ask a question<\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Late Thanksgiving!!! I&#8217;m home from vacation. Our flight arrived about 5pm this evening. It&#8217;s currently 2am in Prague, and therefore I think I&#8217;m going to be hurting tomorrow. I&#8217;m trying to force myself to stay awake until 9 or so, which is proving to be a challenge. I&#8217;m dizzy! 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