Meg and Greg’s Tag On Holiday

Today we flew from Fresno to Las Vegas on Skywest. The plane was a small twin propeller where even the air hostess wore ear plugs. The flight following ours was heading to San Francisco and we were a little amused when the operators started to ask people to move to a different flight due to “weight restrictions”. In the end they were offering $200 and a free flight anywhere excluding Hawaii and Alaska.

We also learnt another verb.

deplane - to diembark from an aircraft. Used in a sentence such as “there will be a small delay once the plane arrives while we deplane”.

They took our tickets before we boarded and before entering the gate area. Then one of the ground crew was using one of the propellers to support himself while writing the flight manifest. They also had this rule about one checked in piece of luggage per passenger, $25 for the second. The problem with this is that they allowed carry-on luggage to be taken to the tarmac and then you could hand it to a baggage handler who would put it in the hold. $25 saved. Quite a few people were doing this so I’m not sure how they knew how much weight the plane was carrying.

When Megan got on the flight there was already someone in her seat. A man proclamied that he had the correct seat until I examined his ticket and he was on the next flight to San Francisco. He just got lucky.

Once everyone was seated the air hostess asked some people to shift around to balance the plane. 

So after this I named the flight Dodgewest.

We landed in hot Las Vegas and were amazed at all the construction going on. This place has certainly grown since we were here in 2004. We checked into the Bellagio and then headed to check out the strip in the daylight. Vegas is much better by night and certainly less dehydrating.

We ate at Spargos and then got some half price tickets to see Gordie Brown. He’s an impersonator/musician. Reasonably good with a large range of impressions.

At night Vegas really turns it on. It’s now possible to buy 1/2 Yard glasses of margaritas and these must be a real hit because the toilets in most hotels have drink holders for them.

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