Into the air, a two day process

Jack wakes us up with an ominous message: "shit, I over slept!" This doesn't bode well as I have planned to take a shower before we leave. I must post pone this task to another time.

We fire up our computers, check email and airplane loads and head out to SFO. We arrive on time, close though. We are ticketed to first class, Los Angeles where we will catch our flight to Hong Kong. In passing I thank the gate agent for the great seats and tell her we are hoping for the same on our leg to Hong Kong. She is curious as to our LA-HK choice vs. SF-HK. We tell her its the loads. LA looks like we might get on the plane in business class.

We wait, get beverages and our gate agent returns with good news. With our STORM, many seats on the SF-HK flight won't make it into the airport for their connection. Cancelled flights. We are delighted and deplane. She rebooks us on SF-HK and we start waiting. And Waiting. And Waiting. We change gates 4 times. There are planes to go out, but none came in to turn over to the out bound flights. I think our HK plane was reallocated to a new route, better ticket sales or something. We continue to wait, certain to make business class if the flight takes off as there are so many who have missed the flight. Waiting until 5:00 when they cancel the flight until next morning.

We call Jack and Jeannie to pick us up and enjoy a fantastic meal at Le Petite Cafe in Mountain View. Return to San Jose and repeat the next morning.

All goes smoothly and we are boarded into economy plus. A no hassle smooth flight. Movies aren't great, but we do okay. A little cards, a little Suduko, some crosswords and we land in HK.