The adventure begins...

Yesterday was day one of the trip and I spent 15 hours of it making my way from Vancouver to Italy. I have to admit that the plane ride was awful and also a good reminder of my "spring-board" plan....I was smushed in the middle seat of the middle isle between a nice-but-smelly girl and a not-as-nice-and-has-too-much-snot guy...it was not fun (may have been my own fault for being late-ish to the airport and having to take one of the stupid leftover seats...just saying). The guy beside me had some rad nasal issues and continually (CONTINUALLY!!!) made that snarfing snot sound that people (gross people) make when they suck snot up and then swallow it...it made me want to hurl and honestly I tried everything short of elbowing him in the face to get him to stop...I offered him a kleenex, I asked if he wasn't feeling well, I glared at him, I talked to girl beside me about it too loudly blah blah blah. No sleep for me. I did, however, have a bit of sweet revenge that also served as a reminder for me...dinner arrived and the first thing I did was attack the included bun with some butter. The scene that followed could have easily been included in an Adam Sandler movie as somehow my buttery plastic knife flew out of my hand (no idea how...I must have been buttering fairly vigorously?) and landed right on snot-man! He was really not impressed and I didn't care at all. I was, however, reminded from the situation that neither bun nor butter was a great choice and I let them be :)