Fall

Ugh. It's now officially not summer anymore and I'm back to being on call. I just spent five whole days in New York, which hasn't happened for about 6 months. But if I'm willing to work weekends, I may actually work this winter. Birmingham tonight, hopefully I have a good crew! Going to attempt to blog more...here are a few pics of my most recent trips.

The lake in Hamburg


Paris, obviously.


A photo from an amazing outdoor photography exhibit I found in Paris while walking along the Seine.

Hong Kong

I was somehow lucky enough to get a Hong Kong trip this month. I thought the flight would be horrible, but it actually wasn't bad at all and Hong Kong itself is awesome!

Here is a view of the city at night during the laser show:




Me at Victoria Peak:



Very authentic and delicious food:


Summer has gone so fast! This month I have been to Paris, Berlin, Dublin, Hong Kong, and I go to Rome tomorrow. I may be on call next month :( but at least I'm going out with a bang!

Copenhagen layover

Rainy days and Mondays

I took this pic at the airport after we miraculously landed in a near thunderstorm.

some people are classy

yesterday when we were on final approach, one of my fabulous flight attendant friends made me look at the guy in 26C. You know why? He was looking at porn. Casually looking at porn, in the aisle seat of the airplane. With a woman in the window seat. I actually think they were traveling together. What a pervert. Then when it was time to leave, he had the courtesy of leaving the magazine for us. How thoughtful. Guess what else he left? An entire bottle of soy sauce. SOY SAUCE. How on earth did they get through with a bottle of soy sauce? I can't even get through with my toothpaste without getting felt up and these people get through with large condiments!!!

Brainstorming

I am kind of freaking out about all the airline merger talks, because if it happens, I would probably lose my job, eventually. And then I would need a new career. Sure, I could always go back to social work, but I don't think I really want to. Any ideas for ANOTHER career for me? Something that preferably doesn't involve major office hours, could involve travel and keeps me in New York. Hmmm....

Happy Scottish Thanksgiving!

After my fake Thanksgiving in Utah, I went to Glasgow, Scotland for the real one. I figured we'd go out for fish and chips. But the hotel there is awesome and makes us food on American holidays! So we had turkey and gravy, and pecan pie and everything, with our Scottish co-workers from the airport. We explained to them about Thanksgiving, and I am getting better at clinking the glasses in toasting. Apparently it is VERY important to clink everyone's glass, even if you are drinking water.

have you lost your teeth?

So the other day I was working the flight to Glasgow when we found these:



on the floor by the lavatory. Yeah, that's right. Cause normally MY teeth fall right out of my mouth during a flight. I made an announcement.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you have lost a "dental device," please notify a flight attendant, thank you."

I figured saying dental device might be less likely to embarrass the toothless person. That or confuse them. No one contacted us. We walked up and down the aisle, nonchalantly looking for people who looked like they might be missing their bottom teeth. The guy I was working with SWORE it was row 25. One girl even woke up a lady who was doing some suspicious sleep-chomping and asked if it was her, but she had most of her teeth, so no, not her. I made the same announcement right before landing. For once the annoying dinging of call bells was silent. So one of the flight attendants put on rubber gloves, put it in a plastic baggie and walked the dentures up the aisle. He got some looks, but no takers. By now it was a joke. I sat them beside me during deplaning. Lots of looks. But no one wanted them. The ground crew in Glasgow took turns shoving them in each others faces. Good times.

Do not ever touch a flight attendant!

Ever!! If you are on a flight and there is a flight attendant in front of you (or behind you or above you, or below you, or somehow within reach of your little fingers) and you have the urge to give a seemingly harmless tap on the shoulder to ask for something to eat-fight this urge! If you are sitting in a seat and there is a flight attendant's waist or butt (as in my case two days ago on a flight) within reach, and you think, 'I will just tap this servant of the airline, and therefore my servant, to get their attention, they won't really mind,' please refrain. Even if you are a seemingly harmless looking elderly lady in a pink tracksuit. You just might get punched in the face. Something about working in such close quarters with the public, barreling through the air in a metal tube, makes you really want to enforce your personal boundaries. Flight attendants do not want to be touched by you, the customer, at all, ever. It will only bring you dirty looks and bad service.
The exceptions to this rule are few and far between, and basically include BEING or appearing to be George Clooney or Brad Pitt.