Friday, September 5, 2008
Sept. 2nd, 2008
The beginning of the day went well. We were on Air France—which allows us to be in the Air France salon prior to boarding our flight and of my—better than any Delta lounge! Fresh French pastries, yummy European yogurt, cheese, fresh baguettes and bread, delicious juices, bottled evian, and lots of little snacks and crackers and biscuits… Then we are in our cushy Air France seats with more yummy breakfast—cheese, yogurt, bread, fruit, etc…
A change in Paris—CDG, a long walk and another wonderful salon wait—and a little shopping (mostly looking as the shops were Hermes, Ferragamo, and other major designers…). I bought some macaroons to take home and then we were off on another blissful flight. Frankly, it is a vacation to just fly Air France first class—fully reclining seats, nice pillows, all kinds of food and snacks and fresh fruit, choice of movies and games and tv—super nice. I am thoroughly spoiled. Then, back in the USA—disaster! It takes an incredibly long time to get our luggage and go through customs (an hour and a half!!) and then we have just a few minutes until our flight leaves and the tram/bus/train has a problem and the computer has to be reset which takes precious time, so we finally arrive at our terminal and blessedly, so we think, our gate is immediately to the right of the exit and we can see our plane which still has the blocks on the wheels. We rush to the jetway, but they won’t let us on and say there is another plane in an hour that we can still make our connection with so no problem…
Right---WRONG!!!! We board that plane and taxi out only to have the pilots inform us that they have been “grounded” due to an argument that they had with the FAA on their previous flight. So, we taxi back and exit the plane and then have to take a taxi to Reagan National where they are supposed to be holding the 8 pm flight for us—Right—WRONG!! They put us on a 9 pm flight and, of course, it arrives too late in Atlanta and we miss our Jax connection and have to spend the night and fly out the next morning!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Anyway, we are FINALLY home and all is well!
The beginning of the day went well. We were on Air France—which allows us to be in the Air France salon prior to boarding our flight and of my—better than any Delta lounge! Fresh French pastries, yummy European yogurt, cheese, fresh baguettes and bread, delicious juices, bottled evian, and lots of little snacks and crackers and biscuits… Then we are in our cushy Air France seats with more yummy breakfast—cheese, yogurt, bread, fruit, etc…
A change in Paris—CDG, a long walk and another wonderful salon wait—and a little shopping (mostly looking as the shops were Hermes, Ferragamo, and other major designers…). I bought some macaroons to take home and then we were off on another blissful flight. Frankly, it is a vacation to just fly Air France first class—fully reclining seats, nice pillows, all kinds of food and snacks and fresh fruit, choice of movies and games and tv—super nice. I am thoroughly spoiled. Then, back in the USA—disaster! It takes an incredibly long time to get our luggage and go through customs (an hour and a half!!) and then we have just a few minutes until our flight leaves and the tram/bus/train has a problem and the computer has to be reset which takes precious time, so we finally arrive at our terminal and blessedly, so we think, our gate is immediately to the right of the exit and we can see our plane which still has the blocks on the wheels. We rush to the jetway, but they won’t let us on and say there is another plane in an hour that we can still make our connection with so no problem…
Right---WRONG!!!! We board that plane and taxi out only to have the pilots inform us that they have been “grounded” due to an argument that they had with the FAA on their previous flight. So, we taxi back and exit the plane and then have to take a taxi to Reagan National where they are supposed to be holding the 8 pm flight for us—Right—WRONG!! They put us on a 9 pm flight and, of course, it arrives too late in Atlanta and we miss our Jax connection and have to spend the night and fly out the next morning!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Anyway, we are FINALLY home and all is well!
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