Nothing like a connection in Paris!

Ok, so been a busy two days, but getting things updated again. The flight over worked out great and yes, Business or First class is not too shabby. If you take a gander at the pictures - first off, I geeked out over the camera view you could get on your video screen of the plane! Love that picture! - you can see that Denise settled in really well. It may be a battle on whether or not we ever travel again as that kind of service can’t be expected without a little lottery help! But for this trip, well, I won’t complain!

The seats were great, lying flat while flying is pretty sweet, and as for the food - WOW! I mean, the menu was printed and we got the beef. They started us with a smoked Duck breast salad, and while I do like breasts, these Duck breasts were perfect! Then we moved on to the main course. They gave us a little jar of Dijon to eat with the mashed potatoes and beef and wow! It was excellent!

At this point, I probably should have been asleep, but you know, it’s first class - fly like you own it! So as I reviewed my menu, well, I figured, let’s try the drinks…. So my one picture is of my Medoc red wine, a little Cognac, a Cappuccino and some water just to make sure it all went down AND shocker, it did! Between the balance of the alcohol downer, the caffeine coffee upper and the lay flight seat, the next 3+ hours pretty much didn’t exist for me. It was quite nice. Unfortunately, my seat was way too close to my wife’s overheating menopausal body, and she somehow managed to overheat my seat by about 112 degrees! (Or maybe my own geriatric fat was slowly generating the suffocating heat I woke up too) but either way, i woke up just in time treading water in sweat ready for my egg and spinach breakfast, also quite tasty!

Besides the camera on the tail, there was also one under the body behind the front tires, watching the plane land in Paris was my second big geek out moment. I got the perfect shot as the front tires went poof! And suddenly we were in France! now for the real fun.

Once on the ground, thanks to the storm in ATL, we were already 30 minutes late taking off. They made up 15 minutes in the air, and when we landed, we had an hour and 45 minutes to make our connection in Paris. Plenty of time per the Air France AI assistant I kept asking. The only problem, she didn’t know that we were then on the ground for an hour waiting to get to our gate due to a malfunctioning boarding ramp… And after waiting 30 minutes to get to our gate… the ramp broke again and we waiting another 30 minutes to deplane. Now down to just 45 minutes to make our connection, well, the adrenaline kicked in and things got interesting. (If you weren’t aware, when changing concourses in Paris, you may have to take a bus to move between them. The time between concourses is not long, the time to wait on the bus…🤯! Anyway, that picture of Denise and I with one person behind us? Well that was the last person to make our flight to Dublin, we were numbers 2 and 3! Talk about close! Whew!

Of course, when you just barely make your connection, there are other interesting components, yay, were were on our way to Ireland, the question was, Is that our suitcase on that baggage cart, well, inquiring minds wanted to know and we wouldn’t know for another 2 hours!!!!Baca lagi