Happy Travelers

Sunday, January 8, 2012
Posted by Tootsie & TwoLively

And so it begins....

We are traveling in 3 different groups, on 3 different airlines: Continental, United, US Airways (we had to split it up, 'cuz that's the only way we could buy our tickets!):

          Group 1: The Travel Agent, Monte, & Co. (their son, her parents)

          Group 2: Oz and Glinda                              

          Group 3: MarcoPolo, TwoLively, and Tootsie      
  

As we began our journey, look who we ran into at our terminal!

Left to Right: TwoLively, MarcoPolo, Tootsie (can you say CHEEEEZE!) Back Row: Oz, Glinda
Looks like they will let just about anyone into the airport these days!

MarcoPolo got things off to a good start by sneaking up behind Glinda, and scaring the "fairy dust" out of her, as she was engrossed in reading her Kindle (probably a steamy romance novela) with a snoozin' Oz sprawled out on the dirty, disease-laden airport bench.

As we parted ways, TwoLively "fell victim to one of the classic blunders"... no NOT getting into a land war in Asia..... she said that her greatest fear for this trip is that since Groups 1 and 2 are scheduled to arrive in Vietnam an hour before our group, Group 3, that the other travelers would hide from us and we would think we are on our own! Well, the plot thickens....

I (Tootsie) called my mom, we'll call her Accomplice A, to let her know that we had arrived safely in Seattle. Groups 1 and 2 were to land in San Francisco at different times. Then, we would all meet in Tokyo, and board the same flight from Tokyo to Ho Chi Minh. Long story short.... the word on the street is that Group 1 (the most vital to the entire traveling brigade....native speaker....travel arrangements... you get the gist) have missed their flight out of Phoenix and cannot get out until tomorrow!

Well, being sleep depried and all, we totally believed it when Accomplice A (MY MOTHER who cannot tell a lie with a straight face to save her life) backed up the story and even said that my Dad (Accomplice B) is on his way to get Group 1 from Phoenix airport and take them home until tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the wheels began to turn within MarcoPolo's bald cranium. We are now convinced it's all a SHAM! We will admit: they got us, and they got us good! Now the best part will be the 20 hours we have to plot revenge.... sweet revenge. And as we all know, payback's a b!+(#  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

--Tootsie (running on 3.5 hours of sleep and random airport food)

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TwoLively here:

Tootsie mentioned she was feelin' sleep-deprived. I just wanted to add that Oz and Glinda went to the airport straight from working the night-shift. MarcoPolo got about 4 hours of sleep, and I stayed awake all night, downloading stuff on the #$%! Kindle! (I fell asleep before the plane even left the tarmak--woke up disoriented, and wondered why the Food Service trucks were next to us in the air--all in the span of about 2 minutes. I tried to stay awake during the flight, but several times I nodded off--waking up with my mouth WIDE OPEN. How embarrassing!) Who knows about The Travel Agent and Monte's level of sleep deprivation; we don't believe anything about them anymore...

So, we are all running on empty...BUT...we are still in good spirits, and more importantly, we are still on speaking terms. We'll see how it goes after the next 12 hour leg of our trip (to Tokyo.)

Leg One: Phoenix to Seattle

Tootsie points at Seattle's snow (we learned that a few days later, Seattle was snowed in, and the city came to a halt!)

--TwoLively