27 June 2007

valencia on a bit of luck

today, june 27th, we flew from porto to valencia via madrid... sometime in march, i bought plane tickets on iberian air... very simple, very normal... now, me being the genius that i am thought i was purchasing tickets to fly on the 27th of june. like i wanted... but apparently, i bought tickets to travel on the 27th of july... i screwed up. and we got to the airport and had problems and then the iberia lady was like, ahh, your tickets are for 27 july, thats why tehre is a problem, so she changed the tickets no problemo. and off we were to madrid... the fun part of the airport in madrid was the screen with the flights and gates gave us a gate, but not a gate number... and didnt give us a gate number until 10 minutes before we were supposed to board... this was a very tiny plane (see picture) and i was seated in the emergncy row, just behind the engine... so it was a bumpy ride across spain, not that i mind a little turbulence. its just i was in the emergnency row, so i couldnt have my backpack under my seat, and it wouldnt fit in an overhead compartment... BUT the stewardesses didnt see it, so i kept it between my legs the whole flight... with my book on my lap, covering it up... glad i have a navy/black backpack... and most airplanes have navy carpeting... so its hard to see the dark on dark in the dark... iberian air's regional carrier is called air nostrum... they have the hottest flight attendants ever. czech air's are nice, iberian's are nice.. ive heard good things about air france... but one of our flight attendants looked like jessica alba, but she never smiled, so that was sad. so then we landed, and the bmw excursions people werent there, and mom was like they should be here, look around and see if you find them. and then one of the guys in a bmw oracle shirt walked in, and i was like, hi, we're the lancasters, and we cant find anyone. and apparently, they had us coming in tommorow... (they also had us coming in on a flight that landed on 27th july...) oops! which was fine, because that flight landed at 13:05... and we landed somewhere closer to 15:00 so we got to the hotel at 16:00something... and everything is hunky dory now.

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