Hoping plans settle out soon ...

It's taking longer than we expected to set the date for our travel. Given how things have gone so far, why would that be a surprise? At present, it looks as if we'll be spending a couple of days in Pune doing our sightseeing and shopping before we pick Hope Aradhana up. The days after that will mostly be spent jumping through all the bureaucratic hoops and administrivia to get permission to bring her home.

It's looking like a departure date in the neighborhood of Dec 5 or 6, and total trip time of somewhat less than 2 weeks. We had intended to fly on Northwestern, but even with their adopters discount of 50%, the airfare is over $2000 each. Nan's pretty sure we can beat that by quite a bit, so we'll shop around. British Airways is a possibility. I have the fondest memories of a BA trip where the attendant who did the routine announcements about seat belts and emergency exits was rude and sarcastic and completely hilarious. I bet the entire plane listened to his entire shpiel, because we all were laughing so hard.

Have you had an otherwise mundane plane trip transformed by an excellent airline employee? Add it in my comments, I'd love to hear it!