Lexington Conquered: Day 1

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- In a world of schools of smart kids, you guys are supposedly the smarter kids. So you should understand the title of this week's travel blog. If you don't, you would probably lose on that FOX show about fifth graders.

Anyway, it's been a long day for us, getting on a 10:25 flight to Cincinnati. Those of you familiar with the Philadelphia airport know that things there don't often run very smoothly. So as we are waiting in a huge line on the taxiway, a nearby passenger says to the stewardess that he has some sort of flight to catch in Nashville (as a private pilot) and that he wanted them to fly there or cut the line so that he could get there.

The stewardess tries to tell him that this will be impossible and that he should be able to get there in time -- it turns out she's right, the guy was pretty much making up some of the details of his flights.

Then he says this great line to her: "Sit down, you've been very helpful." And when she tries to counter him, he repeats the line. And then she leaves. More from this guy later.

After a very bumpy landing, we have about 30 minutes to kill in Cinci's airport, which is actually in Kentucky. After a literally 14-minute flight (in the air), we arrived in Lexington.

It took a while to figure out that we actually had a hotel reservation, but we eventually got rooms, and then went out to explore the city for tomorrow's paper. The biggest problem is that the University of Kentucky is on spring break right now, so the campus is kinda dead. Too bad. We did have a good dinner though, and saw the first trickles of A&M fans coming into the city.

Incidentally, the "we" in all of this is one man short of our full crew. That one man is Josh Wheeling, who as you all undoubtedly know, had a midterm this morning. He was supposed to arrive around 8 tonight, from Philly via Charlotte.

But at that time, we get a call and a text message from Mr. Wheeling. He calls the situation a "deezaster" and says that he took off from Charlotte only to turn around and land again. He hoped to get here eventually. We later find out that the altitude sensors on the outside of the plane did not have heat or something like that, so they needed to fix some stuff.

Josh finally arrived at about 10:30, so don't worry about him.

Anyway, we hope to get you some more interesting stuff tomorrow.

Quote of the day: "That wasn't a landing, it was an arrival." -- The guy who was sitting near us and complained earlier, on our rather bumpy landing in Cincinnati.

Basketball games watched today:4 -- 2 NIT games, 1 Play-in game, 1 Weber State over North Carolina on ESPN Classic, and 3 bonus hockey games (a lot of flipping and a Slingbox).

Stat of the day:
Temperature when we left Philadelphia: 47 degrees Farenheit
Temperature when we arrived in Lexington: 79 degrees Farenheit