THE NOT SO BLONDE TRAVEL

After my girl's trip to Costa Rica fell apart,  I guess I could have hidden in a little corner to cry. Maybe I even did. I will never tell . But I got over it, and got on to planning another trip, or to be exact, I crashed another trip. Let me explain.  Since my friends had abandoned me, and there is no legal shop to buy new friends on the spot, I didn't have second thoughts when my "friend" Deidre mentioned hopping on her South African journey, I just said yes.  I had never seen Deidre, Tyson or Diego when I said yes, and since Brian was not part of the South Africa trip's Facebook chat, I didn't even know a Brian existed on our trip until I met Brian in Johannesburg. Diego had mentionned the name I am sure, but I had not paid attention.  But Brian was very much real, so were the others, and I almost have more selfies with Deidre, Tyson, Diego and Brian than I do with my "real friends." We met elephants, zebras and giraffes together in...

Some passengers like to scream at us flight attendants, but most want to know how we stay hydrated on long flights, what kind of luggage we use, where our amazing IPhone case is from etc ... or some want to know if we have any love advice for them because the mail-in bride they ordered from the Philippines called it quits. No this is no joke. I didn't even know this kind of marriage still existed. I truly thought it was something you saw in movies. Well I stand corrected. On my flight from Detroit to Nagoya, continuing on to Manilla, I made small talk with the guy sitting across from me. And when I asked innocently what brought him to Manilla, that's what he answered: his mail-in bride has skipped on the wedding when he flew in to pick her up, so now he was going for mail-in bride number 2 and wanted to know what I thought he should do to sway her. Maybe don't order her from a website! Go on a date get to know her, and after let's say 5 dates, propose. Just sayin...