I couldn't resist letting you know we made it as far as JFK airport so far. Nothing like a 6:00 am flight to get me out of bed early in the morning! (Considering I've been waking up at 3:30 every morning for the last week - damn those pre-travel anxiety dreams! - it wasn't as hard as I had anticipated.) So, one quick flight down, and one loooong one to go. How long, you may wonder...? Well, it may be one of the longest nonstop flights on the planet: 17+ hours. I imagine many hours ahead spent reading, watching the seat-back entertainment system, stretching in a desperate attempt to avoid DVT (that's Deep Vein Thrombosis, for all you non-nurses), eating, sleeping (thanks to Ambien), and developing that lovely hairdo that happens when you spend 17 hours
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