Being watched in Jacksonville Airport...

So I am sooooooooooo behind on my blogs, I am having 'Blog Anxiety'...but I know that this will ease with postings, so I'm going to try and post one a day until I catch up... ok so where to start...

OK so I was on a trip back to England last week and booked a Jet Blue flight out of Jacksonville to get to JFK ( read about the vacuous teenagers here..). I've not used JAX before and it was a pleasant surprise.

I walked into check-in, a light airy area with hardly anyone around...Jet Blue check in was a breeze ( I lovvvvvvvvvvvve Jet Blue) and soon I was in the light and airy departures lounge..and here's the thing. I was busy reading my book and I felt like I was being watched...I looked up, could see no-one remotely interested in me...so I went back to my book, but still with the feeling that I was being watched. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw what appeared to be a giant man walking past the terminal.!!!..ok, so it wasn't a giant man (see below) but I think he had been watching me! It was a large electronic piece of wall art..very clever. I approve. Then it was off on my Jet Blue plane...lovely big leather seats and loads of leg room, why can't all airlines be this good!

I shall be using Jacksonville airport again...it was what all smaller city airports should aspire too

Vacuous drivel at JFK

Just a quickie as I'm waiting to board my plane at JFK airport back to England. Actually just a little social comment.

I was sat next to two 17/18 year old girls at lunch and could not help but listen to their conversation. I say conversation, but I mean vacuous drivel. You may think vacuous is a cruel word being that it means
1. Devoid of matter; empty.
2.a. Lacking intelligence; stupid.
b. Devoid of substance or meaning; inane: a vacuous comment.
c. Devoid of expression; vacant:
3. Lacking serious purpose or occupation

but the conversation between these two was inane beyond belief. The best line was ... Girl one...'did you see those pretzels that are one side pretzel and one side cracker?', Girl two ' I know aren't they amazing, when I saw them on the television I was like, that's sooo amazing, uber cool'....I give up...what is today's youth coming to?

Get to know Incubus...

Just thought some of you may be interested in what Incubus sound like... I think this is their best song



But love this one too!



Enjoy!

You know you are getting old when.....

The Sunday before last we were disappointed to not see Coldplay in Tampa as Chris Martin was ill. We are even more disappointed it has not been re-arranged yet...so basically Coldplay and Live Nation are making a load of interest off us and everyone else - our 4 tickets were $580!

Anyway to make up for it hubbie and decided to go to see Incubus - ( an American Grammy Award-nominated rock band, from Calabasas, California. ) They are sort of alternative rock...and they Rock!!! And their lead singer is a touch hot too, even though I'm not into skinny rockers!

Brandon Boyd - lead singer of Incubus

On the way to the Fairgrounds we stopped at Five Guys Burger & Fries, the best fast food burger in America. It makes my mouth water just thinking about it...you can see my bacon cheesburger here, and their fries are proper 'chips' (in England we call fries chips) with their skins on..they even tell you where the potatoes are from that day when you go in! Yummy!!!

Anyway the subject of the blog was ...you know when you are old when....

Well I haven't been to a concert like this for a while..there is tailgating outside the venue as it is a huge fairgrounds site and the venue is open air save for an awning over the band so i know I'm getting old when ....

1. We have Ponchos with us in case it rains ! I think we would have been the only ones that would have had ponchos with us as everyone else except the man in front of us with his binoculars ! were young enough to be our kids!2. I am worrying about whether I will be able to drive following the massive contact high I'm getting from the young man pictured in the left of the picture...and when he kindly finished his 'cigarette', 5 girls on the next row down lit up the biggest joint I have ever seen!..

3. Both hubbie & I have to wear our glasses ...and still couldn't see much....where were those binoculars now....

4. When the band finished the regular set I was deafened by the seat smacking and foot stomping for an encore!! Still they came out and gave us 3 more songs so I guess it worked!

I still loved it though and the venue is great when the breeze is blowing like it was Saturday, so we had a great evening...now if we could just get our Coldplay money back.....

A World record and a Tiger Meltdown...

I'm just going to add a quick blog about two sporting events this weekend, because both events may never happen again ..

It's the World Athletic Championships at the moment in Munich, and today was the 100m showdown between Usain Bolt, Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell.. all great sprinters and it was sure to be a fantastic race.

What transpired is one the most amazing things that you will ever see.... (Ive included a link below if you've not had the opportunity to see it) The 'lightening bolt' ran 9.58. The previous record was 9.68...this was out of this world....It was moment that will probably not be repeated for a long time, at 23 Usain Bolt is truly in a different class...Tyson Gay summed it up when he said he was proud to be in such a historic race...truly awe inspiring.

The second sporting event involved my sporting hero, Tiger Woods. Today Tiger lost after leading into the last round of a Major, the PGA Championships...

Congratulations to South Korea's Yang Yong-Eun, it will be a long time before Tiger loses again from that position...Tiger was just showing he is, after all, human.