January 7-8

Wow yesterday was crazy.  We took off from San Juan and flew to Santo Domingo, from there we went to FLL and from FLL to Kingston, Jamaica and back to FLL.  I think I found my new least favorite flight.  The people on the Kingston flight were not polite, kept pushing their flight attendant call buttons… we were running for the entire flight and the worst part is that people weren’t very nice about it.  “Give me an apple juice”, not “can I please have an apple juice”.  My F1 is the fastest person I’ve ever seen at serving drinks.  I was practically running and he was through with drinks and snacks before I finished beverage service.  On the way back, we decided to do start drink service later in the flight so that there would be less “ding ding” of the call button from people who wanted more of whatever.  That worked better, but we waited a little too long and had to run to finish in time.  Haha, can’t win.

We got into FLL at 9ish.  F1 and I had some drinks in our room while we got ready to go out for dinner.  We went down to the tiki bar at a sketchy hotel next door and ran into another flight crew.  The bar was already closing but we stayed and hung out with them.  You know a bar is sketchy when there’s a hot tub right next to it, prob swimming with all sorts of diseases.  Well the guys strip down to their boxers anyways and jumped into the hot tub.  I went back and changed into a swim suit and soon joined them.  There was a hot tub right outside the bar, the guys all skimmed down to their boxers and jumped into the hot tub.  We hung out in the hot tub till like 3am, ordered a pizza (“um, hi, do you deliver to the hot tub??”) and talked for hours on how to find more alcohol lol.  Unfortunately, we couldn’t find a solution to our ‘no alcohol’ problem, so completely sober, we decided to run down to the beach and jump in the water.  It was so much fun diving into the water and splashing around.  All of a sudden I see a white flash from the corner of my eye … the F/O goes running and diving in to the water butt naked (from a distance).  He says “come on guys, let’s skinny dip!”  Um, no thank you.  Lol we were all out until like 5am.  Did I mention it was like 50 degrees out and raining?  Haha what a crazy/fun night.  Was certainly tired today!

Our flight to Boston from DCA was only 50% full, it was so simple.  I get home from my 4 day trip and I realize I have a voicemail from work.  We got in at 5:30 and they want me to come back to the airport and do a 9pm flight to Newark and then stay the night in JFK.  I’m so exhausted, I can’t believe they freaking called me after a 4 day.  I called them back and told them I’ve had a glass of wine and can’t do the flight, so they’re giving me a No Show on my record.  I can’t believe after how much work I’ve been doing lately that they’d give me a No Show.  It’s a pretty big deal to get a no show.  I’m going to talk to my supervisor to see if there’s something we can do about it.  Because of the trip in Aruba, I’ve been working 12 days straight without being home to wash clothes.  I can't believe how much these airlines abuse their employees.  It's mind boggling.