With holiday break slowly approaching, many of us are preparing for the inevitable journey home. This means suitcases are getting packed and plane tickets are getting printed. Although many of us are excited to finally go back to the place we know and love, no one is excited for the hours of delay, the constant boredom and the crowded chaos which is the airport. Living long ways away, I dread the 7-hour flights. So if you’re anything like me and are expecting to be flying in the next week or two, here are some ideas that can help that flight go by just a little faster.
Take A Nap
Get on your flight, take some melatonin and enjoy the best nap of your life. This is hands down best way to make your flight go faster. And who doesn’t love a nice, long nap?
Do a Puzzle
It doesn’t matter what kind of puzzle you like. A jigsaw puzzle. A crossword puzzle. A word search puzzle. Anything that is challenging that will take forever. It’ll keep you distracted and somewhat entertained for a decently long time.
Binge Watch a Series
Sit back, put your headphones in, ask for some snacks and watch an entire season of Shark Tank (or any show that you want). Watch something that you are actually interested in though, because you have to be really it to it to watch for 7 hours.
Go Through Your Email
There are two types of people. Type A, checks email every day. Type B, checks email to find 6,872 emails. If you are person B, a flight is a perfect time to check those 6,872! You have so much time, so you can delete the spam messages and reply to those who emailed years ago.
Go Through your Phone
If you’re already going to clean out your email, you might as well continue and clean out your phone. You can finally add some memory to your phone by deleting all the screenshots of the crafts you never made and the videos you took, drunk at the bar.
Read a Book
There is a book for everyone, whether you are reading Shane Dawson’s It Gets Better, Kevin O’Leary’s Cold Hard Truth on Men, Women and Money or even Jodi Picoult’s The Pact. Reading truly does help the time go back just a little bit faster.