Ok! What a day so far. It started fairly normal, Breakfast, pack, repack and catch a shuttle to the airport. Check-in went smooth, but security was crazy. After a 40 minute wait, we were through and had just enough time for an adult beverage prior to boarding…..Then things went a little sideways. As our flight started boarding there was a ruckus across from our gate. There was an undercover officer with a man pinned to the floor, and appearently the man didn’t like his face on the floor, so he wasn’t exactly holding still for the officer.
The authorities got things under control and carted the man off, but not what you want to witness prior to getting on a flight.
Then it was four hours of cute children behind us kicking our chairs. Tolerance and patience I told Gail through clinched teeth.
We landed safely in Chicago with what we thought was plenty of time before our connection……that was before we realized that we had to leave security and go to another terminal, get ticketed and go back through security. This is the point that we fully grasped that we were entering a new world!
It took quite a while to get up to the front for check-in, even though we had no luggage. While in line, we met a nice representative who went to check our connection, even though we were still a few people back.
He came back and said we were good to go and walked us over the special line! When we got there he leaned in and thanked us for flying Etihad and informed us that we had been upgraded to business class! Sweet deal! Check out the pic!
We have sleeper beds and individual flat screens and my seat vibrates! They even brought us hot towels, menus and took our drink orders BEFORE we took off. Gail is worried about looking like Debora Messing in The Wedding Date when she wakes up from the trans-atlantic flight! No hair stylist on board as far as I can tell.
I forgot to mention that I watched the Beiber Movie on the flight to Chicago. I have a new-found respect for the little twerp.
I’m going to stop typing now and enjoy being totally spoiled for the next 14 hours!
Cheers!
Mark
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