Well many weeks have past and I haven't had a chance to write. I have been quite busy since I last posted on this blog. But I finally got a day off to write some good information to share with everyone. Thanks to all the readers who have waited so patiently for my post.
Flight to Washington, D.C.
July 2013
I left a day before staging to Washington, D.C., which was Sunday. I took the 2:00 PM flight. My family and I decided to go for brunch as my last meal home at around 11:00 AM, so by 12:30 PM I would be ready to be dropped off. Before that we stopped at the airport to check in my bags to save time on my departure. I had already checked-in online, so I was good to go; well...that's what I though. While dropping my bags, guess what? One of my bags was overweight by 30 pounds! Fudge! Originally in my previous post I had already weighed them. I used a personal digital weigh scale, but weighed them incorrectly. I should have done it vertically, but I did it horizontally thus spreading the weight off on the sides. I added a piece of wood on top of the scale to spread out the weight, a tip I saw online, but useless at this point. So I had to bring my bags back and ahead we went for brunch. After brunch outside of the restaurant I started to exhaustively to repack and see what I didn't need (again). I started taking of shoes, jeans, things that weighed the most. I also put the heaviest things on my carry-on. After repacking we went to the airport and went to the counter to weigh my bag. I was overweight still, 13 pounds! So again I started to remove things and went to the counter outside of the airport were I originally had weighed my bags, the American Airlines employee told me that it was ok to be 4-5 pounds off my 50 pound limit. I ended up at 53.9 pounds! He said it was fine. He printed out my tickets even though I had them on my phone; which was very nice of him, excellent customer service. Thank you unknown American Airlines employee, I will always remember you! I tipped him for being awesome and went to the TSA security line. I said goodbye to my family, it was hard. I cried when I said goodbye to my mom, but sucked it up and left. Overall it was very stressful to say goodbye to my family and having an overweight bag, but I made it on time.
