Hobart to Sydney on New Year's Day. The interim start of our adventure. Staying at an airport hotel we catch up with Wayne and Audrey over a casual mid afternoon snack, then off to bed to align our body time clocks for the 12 hour flight ahead.
Saturday morning and its line up time for the shuttle coach to the International Airport terminal , breaky, phoning home via a call or text, a quick check of Facebook then through the semi-silver (Melb are all silver) doors to the land of duty free offerings. We both withhold the urge to swipe our credit cards for the purchase of alcohol, chocolates, make up or technology. Our cards breathe a sigh of relief as they sit tightly in our wallets.
Earlier, a quick look at the Qantas queue to check in for our flight. I must have had one of those "Jenno" thinking faces as the lady in gold with customer service badges displayed asked me if I was ok. "Where are you flying today?" We both replied South America - Buenos Aires and then we heard the magic suggestion. "Business class and premium economy", she pointed,"go to the queue around the corner". We were greeted with soft grey carpet and a shorter line. We smiled and I started to get excited...... we were on our way.
The polite attendant checked out baggage and kindly requested that we take old labels from our cases. With a click of the computer terminal we were advised that our requested upgrade to Business Class had come through. Great! The bad side, we wouldn't be sitting together! Ross looked at me with despair. At once, in unison, we remembered the trip to NZ several years ago with Rachel and Justin where our tickets were mucked up and we didn't get to sit together. That time I cried until the champagne started to kick in. This time we had two options. Sit separately in Business Class or sit together in Economy.
The choice was easy.
Business was where you were lucky enough to lie back into a cocoon shaped bed allowing you to have dreams at 37000 feet. The attendant did suggest that by chance when we arrived in the cabin we may be able to swap with a sole traveller.
Things were looking ok again.
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