My Lucky Day

When Justine and I returned from Australia last October we gave up our seats on our United flight from San Francisco to Dulles in exchange for confirmed seats on the red-eye 9 hours later and vouchers for a flight to any destination within the 48 states that United or United Express flies. Since Justine had never been to San Francisco before this worked out well. We took the train from the airport and spent the afternoon and evening exploring the waterfront, eating a great late lunch, watching the sea lions that had invaded the docks at Pier 39, and Justine got to see and photograph the Golden Gate Bridge.

My voucher was going to expire in the middle of October so I used it for my flights to St. Louis, via Chicago, today.  As I was sitting at the gate in Charleston this morning waiting for my flight to be called the gate attendant called my name instead. Immediately I thought, "Crap, what now?"  The attendant told me that the flight to Chicago was overbooked and he saw that my connecting flight to St. Louis wouldn't arrive there until 1:00 PM CDT. He said he could put me on a Delta flight to Atlanta instead with a connecting flight to St. Louis that would get me there at 11:30 AM.  Plus he would throw in $400 in travel credit coupons (4 x $100) that are good for flights to any destination United flies, domestic or international.  Of course I agreed.

I caught the MetroLink at the St. Louis airport and took it to the Delmar Loop station. My hotel is just a short walk from there. I arrived at the hotel at noon and since check-in isn't until 3 I figured that I'd have them check my bags, lock them in the storeroom, and I'd come back later to check-in. But this was my lucky day. They had a room waiting for me.

It's too bad there isn't a Powerball or Megamillions draw tonight. I think I'm on a roll.

Comments

[Margaret]

You are definitely on a roll. Our Delta flights went well--got in early or at least on time. I couldn't believe that we got in the air EARLY from JFK and arrived in Seattle 20 minutes early. I love SF! And I wish I could think of an excuse to go to St Louis to eat that yummy Mac and cheese!!