My husband keeps telling all of the pilots/FA's he runs into about how he went off to training and when he came back, the house was clean and taken care of and his wife worked out and lost weight...
what exactly is he saying?
oh.. and another one...
he called me yesterday from Frankfurt using his united mobile sim card, which is AWESOME - all int'l pilots should have one to talk to their wives via txt or voice on a daily basis!! *plug* *plug* *plug*...anyways, he says he got into frankfurt, saw some of the pilots/FA's that were on the paris trip i went on and the first thing out of their mouths wasn't "how are you Doug, How are your trips going", it was "where IS your wife? is she NOT here? did YOU make her stay home?".. he actually had to explain to them that i work...hahahhahaa
apparently, i made an impression such that they expected me to be there and want to hang out when i'm next in paris (which might be at the end of the month). isn't that a hoot? Nice to know people remember me fondly and considering i've been asked about, i might just go even tho paris during summer is kinda warm and sticky and of course depends on loads...
OH...AND...Frankfurt has THE hookup at the Weisbaden hotel (Dorint Weisbaden)... the chef comes in ready to please the crew by offering the local trout (which he fishes for himself, he says) to crew members for CHEAP! Doug says there's 1/2 price drinks and food for crew and 1/2 price internet as well. doug says the chef likes the crews so much that when he heard doug talking about spargel (white asparagus) and how good it is, he offered to box up the best spargel so you can take it home with you if you get it the week of the 25th. special price for crews only, you have to ask "special" too (secret handshake or something like that). apparently, the best spargel is hand picked at the market by the chef
that week only (because that's the week that time that the best spargel is picked from the fields) and O.M.G. if you haven't had germany's spargel with hollandaise sauce as a dinner dish - you absolutely MUST.. it is a MUST eat dish during this time of year as it is absolutely DELISH!! we had it last year while visiting a small northern german town with friends and OMG, i start drooling everytime i just hear the word spargel!!!
story about the trout is that one of the FA's came in one day and asked if there was any of the local trout available (off the Rhine river)... the chef was so taken aback by the request of something "local" that he started fishing for the trout himself (to impress her, apparently he liked her) and has offered it to just crew every since.
looks like a trip to germany is in the works for me.. i need me some spargel and warsteiner!!
