This year (2016) we are here in the States for 42 days (October 4 to November 16)!

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Day 29: "Lining up!"

We flew Southwest airways from Des Moines to Pittsburgh because they allowed us an extra suitcase!  (Among other reasons.)  I had never flown with them before.  They don't assign you a seat...it's first come, first served.  The deal is that the first to confirm their booking on line get a number placing them at the head of the line getting on the plane...then you pick the seat you want.  Weird...but it works.

When we got to our gate, their were a series of posts to line up at with numbers written on them.  We lined up behind the 50-55.  (It helps people get in the correct place.  (We also had the letter A, so we were the first group lining up...as opposed to the the letter B group or C group.)  This system is old news to people living in the south, but it was a first for us.  (We really liked the extra suitcase thing...and they served peanuts!  I thought nobody did that anymore!)

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