Under the Palm Trees

Saturday Evening

Flight to Wienna, Austria is now boarding. Please go to gate number 26.

"Lily? Gotcha. Ethan, Hanna? They're here, Isaac? Still talking on the phone, but here, Daisy? Standing right next to me, ok. Justin? Ok! We're all ready to go!!!!" mom screamed, so happily that I thought she'll faint right in front of me any minute. She drank a little too much coffee this morning...Maybe 5 cups of cappucino?

We started heading towards the gate. To be honest, I think we were the loudest group in the whole airport. For starters: Isaac was still explaining his girlfriend (Who probably does not have a brain at all, instead God
blessed her with other advantages) that they are not going shopping tomorrow. Mom and dad were shouting at each other because mom was supposed to by 7 bottles of water, but did not have the time to do it so. Lily was arguing with her mom about going to a Justin Bieber concert next month with her friends, and Ethan really wanted to convince me that we should watch Star Wars on our way to Austria. It was a total chaos.

"Okay,whatever, let's watch just Star Wars. Happy now?" I gave up on having a Harry Potter movie marathon...

"Yesss" Ethan grinned widely into my face. Haha. You'll get it back next time, darling, don't be so happy now...

"Okay, kids, here are your tickets. You know what to do; just show it to the woman at the gate along with your passports. Got it? Good!" mom distributed our boarding passes. I grabbed mine from her hands and immidiately looked at the row where my seat number was written.

"Where's your seat?" Ethan asked, climbing into the ticket to find out where I am seated.

"9D...I'm 9C! High five, bro!" and I gave a high five into his palm.

"Sooo how many movies are we gonna watch? Like all Star Wars movies?" I asked.

"Yup" he grinned in response. He knows damn right how much I dislike Star Wars, but still wants to torture me by watching it with me...I love him, did I tell you this before?

"Yippy..."I responded with a bored tone.

"It's your turn, go ahead. Ladies first." Ethan gently pushed me to the woman checking the passports. What a gentleman!

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After we got into the plane and we found our seats, I couldn't help but felt some déja vu. The first time we met was exactly 2 months ago, on a plane similar to this one. I remember that there was a misunderstanding with our flight tickets and I had to sit next to Ethan, instead of mom. I started to wonder that maybe they knew that our tickets were exchanged and our meeting was part of the whole plan...

"Are you ok?" Ethan asked, looking deep into my eyes as I was lost within an ocean of thoughts.

"Yeah. Do you remember the first time we met?" I said, a sheepish smile spreading across my face.

"Yes. And that is still the best day of my life." Ethan whispered and touched my neck, pulling me into a deep kiss.

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As promised, we watched Star Wars for the whole flight, and I have to say it wasn't bad at all! I don't know why I was so against watching it. And after watching all of the movies, I became a huge fan myself! I'm sooo excited to see the next movie coming up this year!

We arrived at Vienna late at night, since we had to skip several time zones. Even though the flight was extremely long, I really enjoyed spending some time with my soccer super star.

We got off the plane right after every one of us found their backpacks and winter coats, and we were ready to jump off (not literally, of course).

We found our luggages and rented 2 cars. We drove all the way to Zell am see, where our hotel was, the Snow Slide Resort. Hmmm...I don't know why, but it did not make me any more comfortable about skiing here...

The rooms got distributed like this: Mom and dad got one single-bed room, Ethan and Isaac is sleeping in one with two separate beds (poor Ethan...i feel so sorry for him! Isaac snores so loud that I'll probably hear it too from next door!) Lily and me got a similar room (Just bigger, yessss), and finally poor Daisy got a room alone. At least she will be able to sleep properly...

I have to say, that I really like the surroundings. The mountains are high and are covered with white sheets of snow that glitters when the sun comes out from the shades of the grey clouds. The mountains are looking at the people - that are nearly the size of ants compared to their enormous size - like guardians, who are there to protect them. There is also a huge lake nearby which I am eager to discover tomorrow. The view is enchanting.

The resort looks really nice too, in my opinion. It is a huge wooden house that calls people in for a cup of hot chocolate. I love the style of the rooms, it's kind of plain which makes it even more appealing. The walls are all wooden, the beds are covered with blue sheets and there is a TV on the left, facing the beds. All the channels are probably in German, but I'll try and find some English Disnep Channel for Lily. The bathroom is pretty big, with a big bath tub, that looks really appealing to me. 

Since we were all exhausted from travelling, and it was almost midnight, we decided to just call it a night and everyone disappeared into their rooms.