This was a pure travel day, that is, after we celebrated Christmas morning with the family... Lots of Santa-excitement & the famous brunch casserole. Bill & I headed to the Kansas City airport & chose The Parking Spot for long-term parking. I love the polka-dot buses that take you to the terminal.Definitely the proper reason to choose a place to park! We were quite early to a nearly empty airport, so we simply waited. Security was no problem. I amazed myself that I rose to the challenge of packing only carry-on luggage. Normally I stuff a large suitcase for an overnight trip in Nebraska! I was hoping to avoid having the luggage opened, however, for fear that my tightly rolled & stuffed clothing would spring out like one of those mixed nuts trick canisters. http://www.theparkingspot.com/locations/locations.aspx?ID=5
We had a small plane for the trip to Charlotte, NC - 2 across seating so reasonably comfortable. Probably the most interesting part of all the air travel happened when a rather disturbed, impaired woman made her way to the window seat across the aisle: loud & belligerent, she would not get off her cell phone, having *!#@* words with the flight attendant as we were taxiing to take-off. I was actually surprised we didn't return to the gate, but, you know - schedules & all. By the end of the flight, after a cocktail or 2 she was loudly swearing at all the passengers, including Bill who she thought looked like her husband... Hmm, I sincerely doubt that. She was definitely the chatter of the jetway in Charlotte as we all waited for our larger bags, which had been stowed.
A simple, quick transfer to our plane to Paris, with a perfunctory glance at our passports, again on US Airways. We bought our tickets 2+ months ahead so we had our choice of seats - 2, 4, 2 across we had window & aisle seats to ourselves. We had the most amazing weather karma as a monster winter storm was edging its way to the East Coast. As our window iced up, we ended up on the runway 1.5 hours awaiting de-icing. When we eventually took off in the dark there was a light freezing drizzle and the airport was bathed in an eerie green glow of antifreeze being sprayed from tall lighted boom trucks - glad to have made it out just in the nick! http://www.usairways.com/
Uneventful and sleep-deprived overnight flight, but pleasant fellow passengers, and a nondescript dinner of pasta (me) or chicken (Bill)... We picked at that, drank lots of water, dozed and tried not to think about what time our bodies thought it was, i.e. the middle of the night, as we landed at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. Partly cloudy & cold (27 degrees F), it was 11 AM in Paris (4 AM Kansas City) on Day 2.
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