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So I flew out from San Francisco airport on the evening of Wednesday, 07-June-2006. The departure of the flight was delayed by a couple of hours; it was scheduled to depart at around 10:10pm but instead we finally departed from SFO past midnight. My cousin John Paul was kind enough to drive me up to the airport on Wednesday evening. And since the flight was delayed, he was again kind enough to keep me company for a few more hours. We had dinner along with my Uncle Pitchus and Auntie Nellie up in Daly City since I had not yet eaten dinner.
Incidentally, I just have to make an appeal to the people who run the check-in counters at PAL: Next time, have us get our hand-carried luggage tagged at check-in time, please do not make us line up again a couple of hours prior to departing just to get all the hand-carried luggage tagged as such. It would just be so much more efficient that way.
But anyway, the flight back home was fairly uneventful, albeit long. The flight back took a total of approximately 16 hours, including a stopover in Guam for refueling. Since there was a delay in departing from SFO, our arrival in Manila was also delayed a couple of hours: instead of arriving at around 5:35am on Friday, 09-June-2006, the flight arrived sometime after 7:00am.
My only major annoyance: It took me forever to claim my luggage. I kid you not, I may have been one of the last people to claim my luggage. I think it was over an hour after the plane landed that I finally walked out of the airport with all my luggage in tow. :-P
Later in the day of Friday after I took a bit of time to rest and recuperate after the long trip I got a haircut. On Friday evening I went out for dinner with my parents, my sister Ani, my brother-in-law Onggie and their youngest son, Chikoy.
Saturday I went to Guagua, Pampanga, to see the rest of Ani and Onggie's kids. In the afternoon I went to watch Cars with the kids while Ani and Onggie went to watch The Da Vinci Code.
Sunday was Mitzi's 27th birthday so I flew out to Bacolod on Sunday morning so I could celebrate her birthday with her. I will continue to blog more about the events in a subsequent entry. For now, gotta go and get some dinner.
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