A Rough Start

A very rough start

Well, everything could go smooth the first day but it did not. The trip down from Appleton was swift and uneventful  except for a minor detour in Milwaukee.  Traffic was light which is good because the folks drive like maniacs in Milwaukee. Only had to pay two tolls to the robbers on the Illinois Tollway. A great visit with Ed & Mickey in Bensenville, way to short however. Ed was nice enough to drop us off at the airport and we arrived with plenty of time to spare.

Trouble - We used the new automated check in kiosk but did not realize that we were given seats 20 rows away from each other on both flights.

Poor Larry had a middle seat with a Chris Farley look alike and his fatter bother on either side. I was lucky enough to score a window seat. I made a call to US Air on my cell to try and sort out the tickets for the Philly to Dublin flight but no luck. Hopefully we can swap seats with some one and work things out. We made sure the return seats were locked in.

Some pictures of the boys with out jaunty Irish Hats

We killed the four-hour layover eating veggie noodles, watching the Football games, and nursing a beer in the bar

Well we had no luck changing seats at the gate since the gate agent was a Polish Nazi we believe.. Once we got on the plan there was a mad frenzy of seat swapping going on and Larry and I did get to sit together. The food on the plane was actually good.