700, the day after.

So are you dying to know how it went? Sure you are....right.

Well, first I got to the plane and half my crew was missing. I went ahead and preflighted and got the coffee/juice started for first class.
When my other FA, showed up I was informed that I was NOT the forward flight attendant and that's when it hit me. I read it wrong. FF means "facing forward" and FA means "facing aft". Oh man! That means I had studied for the wrong position. Opps. Luckily I had done some reviewing for the aft, and announcements are not a problem for me anymore.
Also it turned out that the other Flight Attendant I was working with (Shawna) was awesome. By the second leg we were buddies.
I made her laugh and she kept telling me how much she needed a good laugh.

The plane itself was nice. The seats are much larger and it was kind of neat to sit in the back and give my announcements without having to do the demo.

As always there were cute children and sweet smelling babies that I pampered. I also took a picture of a young family who was flying to Aspen to have family meet their first born. Asher is a beautiful 3 month old baby boy who was dressed in a red santa suit. I got their email address and sent them the picture last night when I got to the hotel.

Oh yeah, I also met my first famous person while on the job. I was in the aft of the plane while boarding and a lady who looked familiar got up and headed my way looking for the bathroom. I let her in and thought about what I would say when she came out.
"You know, you look a lot like Judith Light." I said.
She gave me a slight wink and said, "that's because I am."
I got all jittery and quietly said, "I knew it!"

She was flying from LAX to ASE (Aspen) with her husband. I know she's getting older, but I thought she looked beautiful. She wore a modest off white pants outfit with a stretchy off white shirt. She's just one of those people that have that "famous" look.
After our service was completed, I discretly asked her if she would sign my trip schedule. She was pleased to do it and asked my name. On the back it reads...
"For Kathy, Thanks for being so nice! Happy Holidays, Best Always, Judith Light"
After that, Shawna came up, rolled her eyes and pulled the manifest out of her pocket and said, "Would you mine signing mine too?"
Judith was absolutely delightful! She was also helpful. Before we could close the door, we had to put some carry on bags in the cabin because there was too much weight in the back. She noticed that we had brought her bag onboard and she offered to move all her stuff around so that we could fit it under her seat. It was one of our longer flight and having that bag under there doesn't give you any leg room. She was fine with it.

All the rest of the flights went fine despite the fact that we ran about a half hour late all day. We were supposed to get a 2 hour break after the 3rd leg in Denver, but ended up being late on that too. No breaks means no food. I had some chips from the crew meal and ate some pretzels that were left in the back seat. One of the flight attendants thought I was sick for doing that.
"NEVER EAT WHAT YOU FIND IN THE SEATS!!" she yelled at me. Well, I don't normally, but I was talking with those people and had watched them open the bag of pretzels. I knew they were fine and I was hungry!

One the last leg, I gave my final "welcome to" announcement and sighed a breath of relief. It had been a long day and I was tired. Even so I thought about how I might be able to get on a flight back to Sacramento that night instead of having to wait for Christmas morning.
It turned out that I had tons of time to sit there and think about it. There were no ground crew to bring in our plane and we waited 40 minutes only a few feet from the gate.
Once we got inside I was walking with the capt. towards the terminal when I heard someone call out my name. I looked up and saw Ron!
He was standing in line with his crew to board a plane. Deadheading, I think. I was shocked to see him, even though it's not that crazy since we both work for SkyWest that it should happen sooner or later.
We hugged and conversed for a minute. It was a little strange to finally meet someone that you know, knows so much about you. But it was nice. Ron, your a good guy and a great flight attendant! BTW- thanks for the advice with the 700.

I met back up with my captain and we both tried to get on flights that would take us back to our families for Christmas. I don't know about him, but it didn't work for me. I ended up staying here in the hotel. I was supposed to deadhead out this morning, but Crew Support called me at 12:30am to notify me that my deadhead was scheduled wrong and that I would not be leaving Denver until 5:45 tonight. So that's takes us this moment in time. I'm sitting here on reserve in the hotel in Denver for Christmas.
I've tried checking earlier flights out of here, but nothing is available. I'm not even sure that I won't be bumped tonight. I'm positive spaced, but I can still be bumped by a mean gate agent. All the flights are oversold and if I'm not considered a "must ride" I can end up staying another night here. The problem with that is that I'm supposed to start a 4 day trip from Sacramento tomorrow morning. O'well. I guess it will all be fine. No worries.

It's Christmas! And I never leave home without HIM.

:-)