Kooji does Boston - Day One

After staying up until 2am packing our suitcases, burning copies of ‘Lohner’ and portfolios to DVD, printing CD labels and desperately redesigning, printing and cutting out our business cards Johnny and I settled down for a well earned two hour nap before his brother Andrew drove us down to Manchester Airport. Johnathan is my boyfriend, business partner and a member of Leeds Metropolitan University’s Alumni. He graduated from the same degree as me (BSc Multimedia Technology) and ended his course the year I began mine. We attended SIGGRAPH together as we saw it as a chance, to not only represent our university, but to promote and celebrate all our accomplishments at the biggest multimedia event of the year.

We arrived at the airport only to be told that our flight had been delayed. This wasn’t going to dishearten us though and we eagerly took up position in the three hour queue for checking-in. To save money we had arranged to travel to Boston by a connecting flight to Newark and then on to our destination. The first flight (and the second time I had travelled on a plane) was a breath taking seven hour trip and we even saw The Statue of Liberty as we glided onto the runway!

If you squint really hard you can just make it out.

I lost my voice on the aeroplane. I’m convinced it was hiding behind the in-flight magazine next to our complementary earphones.

Once we were through customs at Logan Airport in Boston we decided to save time and frayed nerves by taking a leisurely coach ride to the Logan Express bus and train station in Woburn, just outside Boston. From here we jumped into a taxi and arrived at our hotel: The Best Western New Englander by 9pm (which was actually 2am – how misleading!). By this time my croaky voice had become nought but a whisper so we checked in at reception, collapsed on the huge King size bed in our room and drifted into a deep sleep.

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