Your personal travel highs and lows of 2007
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Successfully hand birthing 2 of our foals, 1 day apart, where the mothers could not pass them, and without intervention we would have lost all of them.
Actually being at home for the above.
AONE4 even though it was only 2 weeks, and one of them was spent in Mt Isa
Achieving QF LTG
Standing in and seeing falling snow for the first time (at Denver)
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Re: Your personal travel highs and lows of 2007
2007 highs-First year of retirement.
-Making explat.
-having 8 family members steal candy.
-being upgraded to F on CX.
-Venice and Rome especially the Cavieleiri.
-AA ticketing,gate and flight staff-if you are going to have problems it is best to be on AA.
-NYC our second home.
-what is going to be a very white christmas in the adirondacks.
2007 lows-Immigration MIA
-the year is nearly over.
Highs:
Great ATW trip with my wife and attending Heli Expo in Orlando,
Walking around Edinburgh Castle in a snow storm,
Getting complimentary PC Platinum status and then retaining it,
Meeting Randy Peterson,
Oz Fest in Melbourne.
Lows:
Getting a text message from BA whilst at Edinburgh Castle to say flight out had been cancelled and then trying to contact them back,
Trying to deal with PC to get all the points that are owed,
Hilton on the Park during Oz Fest,
Sydney International arrivals,
Perth domestic airport,
Working with some slack and idle wingers at work.
Riding an Elephant and almost not having kids after a baby elephant massage to the groin region in Thailand.
Mount Titlis as we rose through the heavy clouds and fog to the highest point in Central Switzerland and then enjoying the looks on my ex-girlfriend family's face as they played in snow for the first time.
Tubing behind a boat in Arnhem Land when the fish weren't biting.
My first business class experience.
Getting accepted today to study in Montreal next year so now knowing I will definitely get to book the DONE4.
Lowlights:
Coming home from each trip.
Being delayed in BKK after our Jetstar aircraft went AWOL in HNL. Then getting home and waiting four hours in MEL for a QF MEL-BNE flight.
Not sitting next to Scarlett Johannsen on any of my flights.... Or Jen Hawkins for that matter.
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"I drink it when I'm happy and when I'm sad. Sometimes I drink it when I'm alone. When I have company I consider it obligatory. I trifle with it if I'm not hungry and I drink it when I am. Otherwise I never touch it, unless I'm thirsty." Lily Bollinger on champagne
The spectacular collapse of the private equity buy out deal for QF especially after the sickeningly smug endorsements from Dixon and Jackson
The Chateau Beycheville 1996 red in BA F travelling SYD-LHR-SYD
Visiting the new SYD F lounge a couple of times
A couple of unexpected complimentary on departure upgrades on domestic flights thanks to local QF staff
Flying F to the UK on frequent flyer points
The OneWorld computer systems awarding me points and SCs for flights I never ended up taking
Most QF cabin crew maintaining a welcoming and professional presence (despite the public longue lashings from Geoff et al)
Lows:
QF stuffing up a DONE4 booking
Departing on Europe bound flights from LHR T4 (priority line and F lounge not open first thing in the morning)
Increased price gouging (credit card fees, fees to change paid flexible J flights, etc) by QF
The time and expense of travelling to BNE twice (for meetings and looking for rental properties) to secure a contract deal, which fell over at the last minute due to instransigent client lawyers after a "hand shake" deal had already been struck
Not sitting next to anyone remotely in the league of Scarlett J
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