It’s Super Bowl Sunday, the rides at Disneyland had an reported average 15-minute wait, the Eagles held on to the lead, and down went the League MVP and the Patriots.
I had spent an entire day out at church, a huge lunch, and watching (more so) the Super Bowl commercials than the actual game. Dead tired at 11:30pm, but still got packing to do. So I began that grind of laundrying and yelling for Sarah to bring me stuff I need. Now I would say I’m a pretty experienced flyer, given my high school and college years in the Pacific Northwest and traveling from and to Asia all the time. But other than the essentials, I thought to myself, “F- it, I’m going to the Winter Olympics! I gotta represent!” so here went a fourth of my luggage space:
If I were missing anything else it would be a GW boxer. Anyways, you get the point. I bailed packing and went straight to bed after this picture.
During SB52 I was constantly updating my Instagram story with highlights and the new INFINITY WAR trailer. But then I saw that one of my Korean friend from high school was in town. I reached out to her and was like, “Hey, I’m going to the Winter Olympics, any chance you could meet before I leave?” Next thing you know, I’m at DuPont Circle having lunch with a friend I haven’t seen in 5 years. Nany is a J-1 student (a visa program of cultural and educational exchange) from South Korea and she’s finishing up her prerequisites in DC before relocating to the Big Apple to work at the JFK airport, and we previously spent two years together at a boarding high school in southern Oregon, shoutout to Canyonville y’all. It’s just amazing to reconnect with Nany and have a Korean 101 class, and more importantly listening to what she’s been, and will be doing.
Back to packing, one thing I did differently this time was that I packed a lot of unwanted/old clothes so I could dump them on the way back with a lighter suitcase. Some of my socks, underwear, toothbrush are all up for disposal after this trip. And as of February 5th, 23:30 EST, all the essentials are in, just needs a quick rundown and I’ll be off to bed yet again. 5:30 alarm be waiting on me.
