10:03 PM >> EURO2007 >> Saturday, March 31

Day 0, or "This trip sucks!"
Atlanta, GA; New York, NY; Paris, FR

Departure time: around 5:30 PM.
Leaving the house time: 2:30 PM
Actual leaving the house time: 3:20 PM
But we made the flight anyway. There was a little struggle as when we were checking our bags we found one was overweight (Yes we overpacked. I am going to blame the Wifey since 1) she's a woman, and therefore is genetically programmed to overpack, and 2) I overpacked because I was afraid M would think I was so gross for wearing my shirts repeatedly when she was always wearing clean clothes. As it turned out, we never did laundry, so I wore almost every piece of clothing--including a few pairs of boxers but excluding socks--twice. But really, socks are the only thing that really need to be clean. Then M didn't wear half of her outfits once but wore several twice. So we will definitely pack light next time. Especially after the Train Incident. Watch for that on Day 4.), but we were allowed to move some heavy-A S from that bag to the other one to save some dough. Thanks, Delta!

Flying to the JFK airport was awesome since we were in First Class. Except the flight was too short to watch an entire movie. I watched some of Stranger than Fiction but will have to re-watch the entire thing someday. Why didn't I watch the rest of it on the way from JFK to Gay Paree? (Or is it Parii, or do I really care.) Because goddam motherfucking assfacing pieceofshit sonofabitch Air France decided to use a plane with 40 fewer seats than they were supposed to use to fly to Paris, so 40 people had to get bumped from the flight, and folks that used frequent flier miles to get their First Class tickets got bumped to Economy. We got $1200 in Air France vouchers, though, which we can't wait to use since Air France is obviously such a great operation. It seriously is no wonder the big airlines are going bankrupt. We'll sell the $1200 of vouchers for $1000 if you want. They are also good on KLM, so maybe we'll just go back to The Damage next summer.

We did get to use the First Class Lounge in between the flights, so that was nice. They actually had a French-style buffet set up at the JFK lounge. Plus free drinks and internet and flat-screen TVs to watch the NCAA playoffs.

We took no pictures this day. Sorry. But you are better off.