On the weekend, we did a short trip to Seattle to visit Judith’s former guest family and friends during her high school year in 2001. The weekend was fun and it was interesting to see where she spent one year of her life. (Should someone be interested in the details, you can ask Judith about more details. 
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One thing which impressed me, was the flight. We flew with Virgin America, an airline which was founded last year in August. The roundtrip for two persons was only 200 Dollars, which is really cheap….especially if you convert it into Euros. I once flew with Ryanair, so that I did not expect too much from the airplane and provided services. But I was really wrong.
The airplane was a brand-new Airbus 320 and the interior was very special. When entering the airplane, I thought “holy cow…porn style?” (btw…I learned the term “holy cow” from Judith’s guest mother…awesome expression to prevent saying “shooot” ). You don’t believe me? Well, have a look at the pictures. Additionally they had music playing during the boarding procedure. After a while I found it really relaxing.
Also the equipment was awesome. Every of the black leather seats had his own LCD touch screen and a (wired) remote control. You could choose between different kind of music, music videos, tv channels (sattelite connection), premium tv (pay-per-view), movies (pay-per-view), games, shopping, food and other stuff. Especially the points shopping and food are interesting. They basically provide an online shop access; you can put stuff into your shopping cart and finally checkout by putting your credit card into the lower part of the LCD screen or into the remote control. The purchased stuff (like something to eat) was then brought to your seat by the personnel some moments later. Same way you could easily pay for the pay-per-view offers (movies, premium tv) => Awesome
And btw…the entertainment system is running on linux. 
Also great was the safety video which is shown before the take-off. Instead of having the same old boring style of security advices, Virgin America shows a well-done cartoon which some funny comments and pictures. Especially the old nun at the end putting away notebook, ipod and other technical devices is hilarious.
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