Dave and Jada's Maui Honeymoon Travellogue:

Day 7 - August 10, 2000

We slipped away early in the morning and caught the inter-island shuttle back to Honolulu.  I don't understand why they even bother to serve anything on that flight.  You seriously get up in the air, you level off for about 5 minutes, and then you're landing.  Not much point to come through the cabin with a cup of juice.

We decided when we got to Honolulu to use the remainder of our money to upgrade to 1st class.  We were successful.  It costs a lot less than buying the 1st class ticket from the get go.  We were seated in first row of the section which also happens to be the exit row so I had a ton of leg room.  I have never had my rear-end kissed like that in my life.  For those of you who have never traveled first class, let me clue you in on the experience.

You get served drinks, pretzels,  and macadamia nuts before you leave the ground.  The little high school pull-out desk is bigger than most of the desks I had in high school.  And you need it because they serve a real dinner on real plates in courses with linens, silverware, adult-sized portions, and real glass glasses.  I thought the coolest part was when we were having our sodas before we left the ground, I had eaten all the ice out of my glass already, and the flight attendant refilled it without me even mentioning it to her.  Usually, you sit huddled in the back with the rest of the cattle afraid to ask the head master for another bowl of porridge, but up here where you get to be a human being, they refill the freakin' ice in your glass before you even take off!  What a great scam!  Too bad we can't fly first class all the time.  Oh, and they have 3 flight attendants to work the 24  people up there compared to the 2 they have servicing the 400 people in the back of the plane.

Anyway, it was the most comfortable 5 hours I've ever spent flying.  We arrived at PDX where we were greeted by Dave's smiling visage.  Then we were home to bed to dream of beaches, palm trees, and the south seas.