by Shelly on May 6, 2011
…Hello Ambien? Not yet :)
My plan to get onto the plane and take an Ambien as soon as I got into the air is quickly dissipating. Flying Cathay Pacific for the first time, I am excited about the movies, toys and food available on my flight. Maybe I will attempt to stay awake through all flights and instead eat noodles and drink the Reisling and Cab (no joke, 2 of my favorite wines) available while catching up on Modern Family, The King’s Speech, Another Year and Hereafter. There’s even a plug for my computer! This excites me. Let’s start this awesome day from the beginning…
…Hello Ambien? Not yet :)
My plan to get onto the plane and take an Ambien as soon as I got into the air is quickly dissipating. Flying Cathay Pacific for the first time, I am excited about the movies, toys and food available on my flight. Maybe I will attempt to stay awake through all flights and instead eat noodles and drink the Reisling and Cab (no joke, 2 of my favorite wines) available while catching up on Modern Family, The King’s Speech, Another Year and Hereafter. There’s even a plug for my computer! This excites me. Let’s start this awesome day from the beginning…
After staying up until nearly midnight packing (mostly playing a game of balance the 2 bags to get one under 50lbs), I was finally ready with one backpacking backpack set at 36lbs and one large suitcase at 49.5lbs, not to mention the carryon suitcase and large purse. Successfully we packed Kristin’s BMW with both Matt’s AND my luggage (an amazing feat) and took off to BART where we said our goodbyes’ to our wonderful hostess. Taking BART into the city from Walnut Creek, I bid Matt farewell at the Powell Station - he continued on to his flight where I hope he’s at least half as comfortable on his United flight. :)
On to breakfast with 2 of my favorite people I am leaving behind, Stef & Meg! (Lunch smells incredible btw) I wrapped up my time in SF on Fillmore street in my old neighborhood with the best chai latte in the city from Royal Grounds and my favorite Raison Custard Swirl at La Boulange. The weather was an incredible 70 degrees – just how I like to leave San Francisco – warm. J After a sad Goodbye to Megan, Stefanie carted me in the Mini Cooper to SFO, listening of course, to Florence’s “Dog Days”. Ah, San Francisco, how I will miss you and all of your people!
Enter, SFO. As I was checking in, Stef went to park the car and spend my last hour in SF with me (aww ). She got there right in time for them to tell me that my two checked bags were fine on weight, but upon checking the weight of my carryon, was told I need to check the bag for 170$ or figure something out, because it was about twice the weight that it should have been. Hm. This, I had not anticipated. But Stefanie’s travel experience came to the rescue. “Let’s go over here, we can DO this.” And she was right! My backpacking bag which I thought was packed to the max was somehow magically able to expand in ways I didn’t know possible to encompass the additional weight in my carryon. WOW. Crisis averted. Thank you Stefanie Jones and goodbye :(. Security? Check. Got to my gate with 5 minutes until boarding? Check. Battery low on cell phone? Check. Call family members I had not talked to that morning to say ‘Goodbye’? Check. Last phone call as my phone was beeping at me of its impending death to Verizon cancelling my phone service as the plane started taxing the runway? Check.
I love each and every person who has made my experience in San Francisco incredible. Make sure it stays sunny on the days when the weather is not. We will miss you!!! :)
Hahaha - Shelly, you are cracking me up enjoying all of the toys on the flight! I totally know how you feel. On my Cathay Pacific flight I watched The Hangover for the first time, and as soon as it was over, I turned it right on again. I would feel like such a lazy muffin doing that at home, but on a flight? TOTALLY ACCEPTABLE. Love reading this blog. xoxo
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