Our trip into Dulles went smooth, and we’re running right on schedule. The budget flights we picked up are actually taking us out to the west coast via Alaskan Air. Unfortunately, instead of a straight shot across the country, our first leg is taking us all the way up to Seattle. The second leg will then shoot us down the coast to Burbank (“don’t fly into LAX”, everyone tells us). Alaskan Air’s got a crazy boarding process (“now boarding all rows!”) instead of anything orderly, and the flight’s pretty packed. Thankfully, we’ve got some flicks pre-loaded to the laptop for entertainment purposes during this 6 hour stretch, and the crew’s been passing by regularly with drinks and, a big surprise, an actual breakfast (a rarity with airline travel these days). A pretty decent egg mcmuffin, fruit cup, and a muffin of some sort. Kudos to Alaskan Air for feeding us.