Scenes From the First Leg of Our Trip to China

I only have a few minutes because it is vital that we get some sleep now (even though our original plan called for us staying up all night until we got on the 13 hours flight to China) but I MUST take a moment to discuss the flight crew of our flight to Newark from ORlando. While waiting at the gate for them to begin boarding the plane, I walked to the restroom and one of the women working at the gate named Heather came running up. She was a bit off-kilter to say the least, but nice and she asked if we enjoyed our vacation. I told her that our vacation was just beginning and she made a joke about Orlando being where you GO on vacation, not leave for vacation. I told her that we were going to Newark and then travelling on to China. She gasped and said that was amazing and then I told her that we were going to be adopting. She really flipped out then and started literally squealing. She was fun and asked me several questions about Gigi's age and such. THen she told me that she had recently become a grandmother and that parenthood is the most wonderful thing on Earth.
When I got back from the restroom, Heather came back by and started asking Denise and I all about the process and seemed almost as excited as we were. When we got on the plane, we quickly realized that Heather was one of our flight attendants. We discovered this because she was on the plane handing out happy face stickers to everyone. Not just handing them or placing them on shirts, she was literally placing the stickers on people's foreheads. She gave Denise a whole sheet of them and told her to share them with everyone she meets. Denise decided to leave one behind at the Best Western and stuck it on the hair dryer in the bathroom. When we were getting into our seat, Denise made some comment about wondering is there was anyone next to us on the plane. Heather said, very enphatically, "if there is, I will make them move." Shortly afterwards, a couple came on and the man was seated next to us and the woman was across from him in the opposite aisle. Heather noticed there was an empty row two rows back and she told them to move there. THe man said, "are you sure there isn't anyone there?" and Heather came back with, "if there is, I will tell them you have a communicable disease so they leave you alone."
Once the flight took off, Heather mostly calmed down, aside from walking by from time to time and winking at us. She did stop by at one point and serenaded us with "Hello Young Lovers, Wherever you are". A male flight attendant on the flight took over though by making numerous comments over the loudspeaker about what movies people were watching and making everyone on the plane give Heather a round of applause. His biggest achievement came about mid-flight. Denise always has to have SAltine Crackers when we fly to help avoid getting sick. Well, the flight attendant came over and stared at us and asked if they were Saltines. Denise said yes and started to put them away thinking there was something wrong. He then said, "No, that is fine, it's just that I have an upset stomach and those would really help. Denise asked if he would like some and he said "yes...in a few minutes." Sure enough he came by about ten minutes later and asked if he could have them now. DEnise opened the package and he took about ten saltines. He put them in his shirt pocket with his other recent conquests and said, "I'll put them in here with my twizzler stick and skittles and save them for later." I was amused, but figured it was over. Not so fast. He came back about a half-hour later and said they helped and asked if he could have some more. Denise said sure and he reached out and said, "can I just take the rest of the bag" and then he did. There were about another 10-15 SAltines in the bag. I was not the least bit concerned, but I thought it was very bizarre.
In any case, they were both very nice and Heather gave both of us a big hug on the way out. Just another pair of characters on the journey to Gigi. TAlk to you all tomorrow, when we are spending more than half the day on a plane.