March 28, 2009. Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. A Travel Day.

He was sitting at the bar waiting to board his plane. While he was eating breakfast and drinking a Bloody Mary, his cell phone rang and he answered. I was ten feel away and I could not only hear him answer, but also listen to his callers voice too. He looked at the phone but was unable to push the correct button to take himself off speaker mode so he just finished the conversation and hung up. While he was pushing buttons on his phone trying to fix the problem, another caller rang him, so once again we were able to listen in on the whole conversation. He was very discombobulated indeed as he was not alone at the bar. Eventually he figured it out and turned his phone off speaker mode. It took me several days to get my phone off speaker mode so I knew how he felt, but I still laughed.

Today, everything went our way. Ken used air miles to upgrade us to First Class, so the both flights were pleasant. We forgot about food, so we ate breakfast in Washington only to be served another breakfast on the plane. When we checked the gates in Houston we discovered a flight was leaving in thirty minutes and we stopped at a service desk and were able to get on that flight rather than wait two hours for our own flight. Now the last few times in Houston when we have wanted to get on an earlier flight, we were told that fifty dollars each would get us on the earlier flight. We are too frugal for that. Today, perhaps because we were flying first class, we got on the earlier flight with no problems. We walked from one plane to the next with no waiting at all. Every time we arrive here the system at the airport is a bit better. Today, with no luggage to wait for, we were home at the apartment very quickly, and by three-thirty the locker was emptied with everything put away. It doesn't often happen, but today, everything went our way on our day of travel.