We have arrived...

3 Apr 2009 – 3:15pm – 35K feet high – east of Chicago but still over the US
We are on the 2nd leg of our 3 leg flight to St Pete. We have had some pleasant surprises so far on this journey. When we were boarding in KC for Chicago, the agent took our boarding passes, ran them through the scanner and then said, “wait a minute…” He asked the other guy if he had the “singleton” boarding cards and ran 2 other cards through. Then he handed them to me and said, “enjoy.” I looked down and they were for seats 1A and 1B…FIRST CLASS!!! That was great. I had never rode in 1st class before. They even served us drinks in glass glasses…I told the flight attendant that we don’t even drink out of glass glasses at home. Then when we got to Chicago, they couldn’t seat us together, but said they would work on it. Right before we boarded, Britt went and got our boarding passes and they did manage to get us in the same row. When we got on the plane, our seats were in “economy plus” which is just like economy but with 5 extra inches between the seats. Last night United wanted $98 each for us to upgrade to “economy plus.” I never really thought 5 little inches would make a difference, but it does.