Flight to Heathrow

Friday May 19, 2006
Somewhere above the Pole

Flight was excellent. We arrived at Heathrow a few minutes early and I actually had very nice service from two flight attendants, both English. Well, actually from one. She was very sweet and genuine and the other had been flying with United since the Magna Carta was written. I gave them both the little appreciation comment forms that United sends out every once in while. I gave one to the first because she was indeed very sweet, and to the second because I thought she really needed something to cheer her up... she seemed in dire need of it. I had a nice meal, several glasses of wine and an Ambien.

There was a very delightful lady that I shared the row with; she is a nurse from West Virginia and living in Honolulu. She and I were both reading, but had a very enjoyable conversion over dinner. She was just engaged, so is traveling to Scotland with a girlfriend for a week, touring around with no plans at all – just a list of B&B’s around the country. Sounds refreshingly fun.

I woke up an hour before landing with breakfast of fruit and pastry. I'm sure it’s difficult to bake at 30,000 feet; seriously, do things rise at that altitude? Stick with the fresh fruit. We arrived about mid-day as fresh as new.