{"id":2181,"date":"2009-08-19T19:23:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2009-08-20T19:27:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T23:27:42","slug":"off-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=2181","title":{"rendered":"off to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday evening, Derry and I flew to the UK. We were upgraded to first class, which was fantastic and a first for any flight I&#8217;ve had to the UK.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2191\" title=\"planeAug-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-1.jpg\" alt=\"planeAug-1\" width=\"280\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-1.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Funny enough, originally we were in the last row in the back of the plane.\u00a0 No one was next to us, the seats went back with no one behind us, and we were close to the loo.\u00a0 In other words, I was content.\u00a0 But any time you&#8217;re able to get an upgrade during an international flight, take it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2188\" title=\"planeAug-4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-4.jpg\" alt=\"planeAug-4\" width=\"420\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-4.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-4-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There is a menu with four different main courses.\u00a0 The wine flows (although I tend to only have water when flying), and the ice cream sunday dessert was yummy.\u00a0 Above is breakfast.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2189\" title=\"planeAug-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-3.jpg\" alt=\"planeAug-3\" width=\"420\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-3.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-3-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In truth, the food doesn&#8217;t matter too much to me.\u00a0 I like the extra space and the seats are heavenly.\u00a0 There are buttons to recline, for a footrest, and indivdual screens for watching movies and such.\u00a0 There is so much more room.\u00a0 Look, my legs are outstretched and I&#8217;m not touching the seat in front of me!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2190\" title=\"planeAug-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-2.jpg\" alt=\"planeAug-2\" width=\"420\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-2.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-2-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can recline and actually get some sleep.\u00a0 (Good &#8216;ol iphone, like a spy camera &#8212; but I did pixelate their faces).\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2196\" title=\"planeAug-5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-5.jpg\" alt=\"planeAug-5\" width=\"420\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-5.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/planeAug-5-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re about to land, heading to Birmingham airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday evening, Derry and I flew to the UK. We were upgraded to first class, which was fantastic and a first for any flight I&#8217;ve had to the UK. Funny enough, originally we were in the last row in the back of the plane.\u00a0 No one was next to us, the seats went back with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}