The Family Girl Blogs (aka "The New Working Girl Blogs") Blog #15: Flying is fun? Hah! To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

I am leaving for Manila at 8:30 this morning.   It's for work, not fun.   I'm arriving in Manila thirty-eight hours later, or Monday 10:30AM Manila time.   And I'm flying back Tuesday 8AM Manila time, and arriving in Reagan twenty-five or so hours later, or Tuesday, 8PM Eastern Standard.   Sixty-three hours, or more than two-and-a-half days of flying time, for all of twenty-one hours in Manila.   and much of that would be time on the road, getting ready, or whatever.   I'd probably just have eight hours with the office guys... yeesh...  

I'm going to Manila and visit our call center there.   I'm supposed to go there and make THE Announcement and attend their office Christmas Party, sort of to get to know everyone, and let them get to know me (although everyone knows it's just a cheesy Human Resource PR ploy).  

Anyway...  Let's try and break the trip down.  

Six AM pickup by the shuttle, and a thirty-minute drive to Dulles. Check-in two hours before the flight, take-off at around eight-thirty.   And thirty-eight hours flying, switching planes, eating stale plane food, try and nap and what-not.  

Arrive in Manila 8AM Monday (Manila time), maybe an hour through customs, and a car will bring me to the hotel.   The guys tell me that might be a two-hour drive.   That means I will arrive at the hotel 11AM.

So assume maybe three or four hours to check-in, rest, have lunch and get ready.   And an hour's drive to the office.   So that'll probably be at 4PM.   So, I'll have an hour briefing with the managers, and a couple of hours to make the all-important announcement and make the rounds.

7PM - back on the road, and maybe an hour's ride to the place they booked for their party.   And then announce some awards, some pep talk and then Partay!!! (although I have to keep up apearances and be reserved and boss-like...)

The party should wind down around 1AM or 2AM (there's work the following day, after all).   So maybe an hour or so to say my good-byes and go back to the hotel.   So just an hour to rest a bit, freshen up, get ready and check out, and then the thirty minute to an hour taxi ride to the airport.

That'll allow me to check in two hours before the 8AM Tuesday flight back home.   And this time, it'll be just a little over twenty-four hours of flying, switching planes, eating stale plane food, try and nap and what-not.   Again. And I woud be back home 8PM Tuesday.   An hour to go through customs, and another thirty minutes to an hour in a taxi, and then I'm finally home.

I tell you, is that any fun?   Can't be good for a girl, even an ersatz girl like me... Bleah...

Anyway.   Shuttle's coming in a while.   Talk to you guys in three days.

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