a virgin no more...

A Virgin no more!

Virgin airlines… I am convinced there are no airlines which can compare to what Virgin Airlines has produced. Not surprisingly I didn’t actually find out until just before our flight was about to arrive that we were flying out on Virgin. This came as a source of excitement since I’ve been very curious about flying Virgin. Think about it they’ve got two things working for them commercials involving has-been 70’s rock stars and that lunatic for an owner sir Richard Branson, who spends his free time flying around the world in a hot air balloon or a space shuttle whatever the weather may dictate (a brilliant lunatic as I would come to find out but a lunatic none the less.)

Tuesday afternoon we stopped by the Eager’s and had lunch with them. It reminded me how sweet they were to allow me to stay with them for as long as they did. It also reminded me that I really did enjoy living with them despite my complaints to the contrary… (I didn’t complain very often.)

After dropping off our belongings and our cars, Mandy Wells took us to the airport without any major hitches; well accept for the 2 hour delay leaving Chicago. When we boarded our flight we were surprised to see little TVs behind every seat, and little remote controls on each of our arm rests! This was the most enjoyable 8 hours I’ve ever spent on a plane in my entire life! We had the choice between watching 6 different movies, listening to 5 different CD’s, or even playing some cheesy videogames. They fed us twice (both meals being halfway decent) and drew the curtains to help acclimate our bodies to the extreme time change… It was so wonderful I almost forgot that we were arriving 2 hours late for our connecting flight which we were supposed to board 30 minutes after our original touchdown time. This little snafu meant that we would be leisurely arriving into Heathrow an hour and a half after the departure of our connecting flight into Italy. I should have known at that point this would not be any normal adventure overseas, that little reveal however, was about to become very clear at approximately 12:30p (London) in front of the Alitalia desk.