The Sunshine Adventure (or not)

Hello, it’s been a while since the last Trip report of mine.

Hopefully, now, i’m back to explore more and more fantastic (or not) destinations.

Today wasn’t a exception.. Flying with me is never boring trust me.

Everything began in the warm, humid, cloudy Houston . I wanted to escape from here. Since that Summer vacation started a week ago, i asked myself: "Theodore, do you really want to stay on your bed forever? " . This simply horrific tough made my lazy brain :brain: starting to think where i should go to “relax” myself (remember this for the afterward) . **ST THOMAS OFC " , eureka, i’ll lay down in the white beaches :umbrella_on_ground: (instead of my bed) .

On June 26, i woke up and went straight to the airport, the big one, IAH. (Sorry HOU lovers) . It was a great day for flying, CAVOK, calm wind :leaf_fluttering_in_wind:.
I took the sky train to Terminal C where my flight was scheduled to depart from.

So here we are, gate C4 , were a magnificent 737MAX-8 was waiting for us. UAL nailed the livery, it looks so great on this airplane. :airplane::airplane:

We boarded the plane, i was seated in the back almost over the gears. The flight attendants were smiling and relaxed :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:.
We proceeded to taxi to runway 15L, i saw this bird to DOH :

We took off facing south, Next to the United Academy and Some maintenance hangars:

Somewhere over Florida, guess the city :cityscape:

Then, the paradisiac Caribbean islands :desert_island: showed up, i took so many photo but unfortunately there’s a limit here, so i selected this one

Uneventful flight, expect the fact that UAL Entertainment Syst is magic. There was so many movies, that i spent the whole time searching for one (that i never watched since that i slept the whole time :sleeping_face:, goodness gracious me) . The cabin is super clean, the blue mood light makes me feel like i’m in a rocket :rocket: to the moon :full_moon_face:.

--------------------------The Unexpected?--------------------------

I woke up to the voice of our chief flight attendant (that felt like a cold shower for waking up). She was saying to fasten our seatbelt , raise our tray table as we were approaching Thomas Islands.

Five minutes after, our Captain informed us of a strong crosswind raging at the airport, mixed with a wind shear, of course.

Bumpy approach, but we made it to final. Then suddenly i felt like was passing out, the plane dropped like a certain thing in the toilet :toilet: , towards the ground. We slammed the ground and then applied full throttle towards the sky. Our winglet got "damaged ". Everybody was screaming :scream:, as if we were in Slenderman.

As i was sweating heavily, we ended up touching down (not smoothly) in a 29knts gust wind.
Everyone applauded the pilots!

We stopped at gate 8 in this (very) small airport.
I deboarded, thinking “you wanted action, you got it” . Some passenger were arguing " never again, NEVER" and some other things that i shouldn’t say here.

Anyway, U.S virgin islands are waiting for me,

See you in the next story,

I’ll be going to North Korea :north_korea:,

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Awesome photos and flight review!

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I will forever be in love with the look of the max winglet

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Glad to hear, thank you

It is, indeed, a very graceful winglet

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Nice pics. Just remember, only 1 Screenshots and Videos topic per day per person. :slight_smile:

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Hi thank you,

I closed the other one already

oh bet i’ll go with you

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I’ll give you an escort. Let’s see if their AAMs work

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Lol, good luck

Pretty scary, we will see

Leave him let him Glow :rofl::rofl:

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Bump guys, do you like the writing style?