Final Boarding Call

Okay-so you’ve all been waiting patiently to hear the news of our adventures in New Orleans. Well, here it goes, it’s Wednesday and today was day one of our trip. Let me set the stage for you a little bit. Sarah, Dana & I are traveling together. We each worked half the day so we are traveling late afternoon, into the evening, leaving of course, little time, if any for dinner during our connection in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Well, first things first, we have discovered a travel nazi in our group, I’ll let you guess who (and NO, it’s not me!) The Travel Nazi as she is now dubbed has got to know what time, where and for how long things are going to take place. She also needs to know EXACTLY how far it is from one gate to another and how many seconds it takes to get there.

We managed to make it TO Hartford with little issue, thanks to Tom who drove us to the airport. After arrival at the airport we checked in, and proceeded to security. It’s during this time that I realize my major purchase for the day (a $6.99 travel watch from K-mart) was left in the car…no I have no idea what time it is all week while I’m working-UGH!
As well, in the security line, we were told by the initial check-in man that any liquid needed to be stored in Ziploc bags…now, I haven’t been listening in detail in the news, but if you have explosives, what good is a plastic Ziploc bag? Anyway, he proceeded to tell us that we could obtain them (for free) in the gift shop…okay, let’s take a quiz…if they’re free, and you HAVE to have them, and the guy at the TABLE is telling you that you have to have one….WHY doesn’t he have them? We go to the gift store and get Ziploc bags…JEEEZ!!! We made it through security-you must have lotion in a Ziploc but once again, ??? why can you bring knitting needles…um, they have a point?!?!

Anyway-on the plane, no issues, make it to Charlotte, where we have 20 minutes to go from Concourse “C” to Concourse “E” to make our connection. One of us decides to grab a quick bite to go from Burger King, but this being the ‘deep south’, nothing is quick. The Travel Nazi is having a fit…we need to get to the next plane! We travel by people movers through the Atrium and arrive at our gate. Upon arrival near the gate, a nice older gentleman informs us that the plane to New Orleans just left. Now, Travel Nazi let her guard down for 15 minutes and the rest of the crew nearly misses the plane-she’s hating us right now! Ever so appropriately she says to the man “What the F…….”, after she promised no “F-Bombs” on this trip-so much for that! Fortunately for us, the gate agent came to our rescue, as they were holding the plane for US! How convenient we didn’t even have to wait in line!

No other travel issues, we’re here, ate a late dinner, had a drink….no more “F-Bombs” and tomorrow is another day!

Did ya guess who the Travel Nazi is yet???


ALSO---I have photos and can't seem to upload them to this site, I keep uploading and they're not here, can anyone help???

Until next time~All the best