1 Flight Down

We made it to the airport in South Bend. After a tearful good-bye to Grandma and Papa (mostly Emilia and Grandma), we made it through security and on to the plane (a prop plane with 9 rows). Row 9 has five seats and goes across the back of the plane. We had seats A-D. We took off, read books, watched Scooby Doo on the iPod, had juice and pretzels, spilled juice, and landed in Cleveland. The Cleveland Airport has a Little Tikes playhouse in concourse D and really wide hallways. They'll be great for running around until our next flight.

I had a chance to talk to the man who got assigned to seat 9E. He is on his 16th trip to the National Institute of Health. He has a rare form of a disease. I didn't catch the exact name, but it ended in -oma and only like 200 people in the country have it. He is part of one of their experimental treatment programs. I'll be keeping him in my prayers as we travel.