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Well, we are back from the conference and it was great! There is so much to say about it... I've decided to break down into days (although I will still have to give the condensed version!).
8/31/06 (part 1) We wake at 4:00am to get ready and go to the airport. We arrive at the airport at about 5:15am. Since Jeff wasn't going with us and airport security is tighter, he couldn't wait with us, so he basically had to just drop us off. We had no problems with security and made it through just fine (chapstick and all!). We spent the next hour or so at gate C1 waiting to be called to board. At 6:20am (plane was scheduled to depart at 6:45am) we hear the announcement that our "flight will be delayed due to mechanical problems". Grrr! As soon as they can get a mechanic in to look at it they will be able to give us more information. Ooookaaaay. Close to 7:00am they start boarding us... no other mechanical delay info, no "everything's been fixed"... I mean come on, you can't even get your car fixed at the auto shop in less than 45 min. and the mechanic is already there!... much less an AIRPLANE! I must admit I was a bit worried. Had they forgotten that minutes before we had mechanical problems? As we take our seat, I start to run escape plans through my head in case of engine failure or emergency landing (weird habit I have of always finding escape routes in unfamiliar places). If we start to crash, does the person in the exit row look competent enough to know how to take off that emergency window? *no* Or if they look incompetent (read: like an idiot), are they weak looking enough that I can overtake them and throw them aside to get my daughter and me out to safety? *yes* OK, got that covered. Once everyone is seated, a guy comes over the intercom to give us the scoop. BTW, this guy is not the pilot or a flight attendant b/c he introduced all of them. I still have no clue who this dude was. Anyway, he apologized for the delay and the "whatever" had been fixed (oh goody, I won't have to jump out any windows at 25,000 ft today). "However", anonymous man says, "we will have a short delay while we wait on the fuel truck to give us some more fuel before we take off." What? Fuel Truck!?!? Don't they do that before passengers board? Soooo, we wait on the fuel truck and finally we are fueled and ready for take off!!! We still ended up arriving at DFW around 8:45am. Only 30 min. off our regular schedule. Moral of that story... I need to quit over analyzing and just relax...
Well, that's all I'm going to blog for now. I'll finish up day 1 (part 2) soon. |
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