Wednesday, April 28, 2010
april 23rd
It never happen. since we left on the 22nd and arrived on the 23rd yet were only in the air 14 hours.
flight day one
april 22nd.
Arrived at our beloved LAX, to find out our air new zealand flight was now a united flight. 10:00pm take off 6 am arrival. I formed a plan to stay up as late as possible and then wake up at 6 am ready to go.
Laurie and I get to our seats and sitting in the window seat is another ex football player. We look at each other and start laughing. He was only 6'3 230. So our row was an average height of 6 feet and weighing 230.
There was an open seat ahead of us, so laurie jumped in it. My arm rest did not come up and I was not ready for 14 hours of no movement. A flight attendant came by and we talked for a second. She found out it was our honeymoon, to which she said" You should have got business class." She would say this a few more times till I exploded on her 12 hours into a flight I could not sleep. Well a nice gal from melbourne came to take lauries seat, so i asked if we could switch seats. she would still get an open seat. I could then lift the arm rest and atleast be a little comfortable. The gal in that row got all pissy with laurie since she did want an open seat, but i looked at her , defending my wife and said, "did you pay for it, then get nice quick, because we are sitting next to you for 14 hours.
The flight attendant must have overheard us, and found a really nice australian lady who had a row to herself. Once up in the air we were switched, and Carmen, who is australian but lives in houston, switched seats with us. I would help her find her glasses later in the flight and get her stuff out of the overhead storage, and then in sydney help get her bags off the conveyer.
Well our new seats were horrible too. Once again the flight attendant said its your honeymoon, you should have paid for first class or business. I said, how about you pay for it. We were starting to not be friends.
well we watched something about the morgans. Not very good, i was hoping for blind side.
I met some great aussies from perth in the back of the plane. Hung out with them for about an hour. Till my nemisis came and said we were too loud (Flight attendant).
Then sat down, and found a somewhat comfortable position, with my head in the seat infront of me and my leg out in the aisle. THe arm rest did not lift in this seat so i was terribly uncomfortable.
Flight attendant bumped my leg hard as she was coming down the aisle. all the other flight attendants would give me a little tap on the shoulder or just weave around my leg.
She got test with me and said you need to move your leg, to which i said i am just trying to find a little comfort. and once again, you should have bought business class. My reply was the first leg of our trip was cheaper than buying business class so i can tough out 14 hours .
still not our last run in.
I got about an hour of sleep waking up every so often.
On the way to the bathroom i met a nice man doing some strange stretching. He was from tasmania and since that was our first stop, i asked him for some tips on what to see. We talked for about hour and half . He and his wife were just lovely. I got to meet there 30 year old sun who lived at home. We had a lot in common. They would give some great tips on what to see.
I then went back to my seat and found by hunging the arm rest in an upright position i could find about 25 percent comfort and i got about a good 40 minutes in, till i was woken up for breakfast by you know who. I thought about tripping her.
Arrived at our beloved LAX, to find out our air new zealand flight was now a united flight. 10:00pm take off 6 am arrival. I formed a plan to stay up as late as possible and then wake up at 6 am ready to go.
Laurie and I get to our seats and sitting in the window seat is another ex football player. We look at each other and start laughing. He was only 6'3 230. So our row was an average height of 6 feet and weighing 230.
There was an open seat ahead of us, so laurie jumped in it. My arm rest did not come up and I was not ready for 14 hours of no movement. A flight attendant came by and we talked for a second. She found out it was our honeymoon, to which she said" You should have got business class." She would say this a few more times till I exploded on her 12 hours into a flight I could not sleep. Well a nice gal from melbourne came to take lauries seat, so i asked if we could switch seats. she would still get an open seat. I could then lift the arm rest and atleast be a little comfortable. The gal in that row got all pissy with laurie since she did want an open seat, but i looked at her , defending my wife and said, "did you pay for it, then get nice quick, because we are sitting next to you for 14 hours.
The flight attendant must have overheard us, and found a really nice australian lady who had a row to herself. Once up in the air we were switched, and Carmen, who is australian but lives in houston, switched seats with us. I would help her find her glasses later in the flight and get her stuff out of the overhead storage, and then in sydney help get her bags off the conveyer.
Well our new seats were horrible too. Once again the flight attendant said its your honeymoon, you should have paid for first class or business. I said, how about you pay for it. We were starting to not be friends.
well we watched something about the morgans. Not very good, i was hoping for blind side.
I met some great aussies from perth in the back of the plane. Hung out with them for about an hour. Till my nemisis came and said we were too loud (Flight attendant).
Then sat down, and found a somewhat comfortable position, with my head in the seat infront of me and my leg out in the aisle. THe arm rest did not lift in this seat so i was terribly uncomfortable.
Flight attendant bumped my leg hard as she was coming down the aisle. all the other flight attendants would give me a little tap on the shoulder or just weave around my leg.
She got test with me and said you need to move your leg, to which i said i am just trying to find a little comfort. and once again, you should have bought business class. My reply was the first leg of our trip was cheaper than buying business class so i can tough out 14 hours .
still not our last run in.
I got about an hour of sleep waking up every so often.
On the way to the bathroom i met a nice man doing some strange stretching. He was from tasmania and since that was our first stop, i asked him for some tips on what to see. We talked for about hour and half . He and his wife were just lovely. I got to meet there 30 year old sun who lived at home. We had a lot in common. They would give some great tips on what to see.
I then went back to my seat and found by hunging the arm rest in an upright position i could find about 25 percent comfort and i got about a good 40 minutes in, till i was woken up for breakfast by you know who. I thought about tripping her.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
prestage planning
We have decide where we want to go, now we just have to get there. Currently we are set to head to hawaii, and then on to Australia. We would like to get in tasmania and new zealand, before we head to korea.
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