USA november 2007

To avoid sending several e-mails from different trips I decided to copy my smart colleagues and create a blog of my own :)

This trip started 30.10 first from Tallinn to Amsterdam. Like always ID passengers are not the favourite ones to the check-in personnel :) It took her 15 minutes to understand that she was checking me in for the wrong flight and that was the reason behind all her technical troubles... And of course the bags do not go all the way through...
At Amsterdam I got all the way from check-in to the gate without going through security!? But then at the gate they treat you like a criminal... I was questioned for 10 minutes about who packed my bags and how did I get to the airport and where else my bags had been and did I have any gifts from someone to take with me etc.
I guess I answered all the questions correctly as I got a special sticker on my passport :)

Getting on the flight was another issue... I was already giving up as everyone was on board except me and another obvious ID passenger (I was already deciding where to find a hotel at the airport or at the city) when a guy in a mustache game and asked if I was Miss Tolmats :) and gave me a boarding pass with seat number 9A in Business :))) so sometimes it is worth a while to dress nice...

I was sitting next to this all American guy in baseball cap and curly hair who seemed to have some kind of medical problem (he was twitching all the time) but never the less kept drinking bloody mary's and vodka with tonic.
When he fell asleep I tried to climb over him to go to the restroom and of course the plane had slight turbulence just then and I ended up landing on him... he got a bit of a scare but it was quite funny for everyone else watching :)

So I made it here... weather is nice and sunny, people still with the same fake smile, nothing has changed since May.
The decision on Boston - whether to go or not is still out. There is some kind of congress in town, flights and hotels quite full so we may end up somewhere else in US :)

Lammas