Day One -- October 28, 2012

We were up early and happy to see that it was clear outside so our friend Paul could fly us to San Carlos (30 minute flight vs. 3 hour drive).  We said goodbye to Tiger and Dusty and met Paul at noon for a nice flight to San Carlos.  Our taxi was a little late, but we got to the International Terminal at SFO plenty early.  We were surprised and happy to see that our Premium Economy seats got us Priority Check-In and into the Priority Security line which made for a very easy start for our trip.  We were eating our traditional panini sandwich and toasting the start of our trip with a glass of wine and beer in no time!  Our gate was downstairs and when we got to the gate we were a little worried to see that there was not an airplane at the gate.  Our flight was listed as 20 minutes delayed and we were happy to finally see our airplane taxi in -- Air France only had one hour to clean up the airplane and get it ready for take off, but somehow they did it.  Air France changed our airplane from an Airbus A340 to a Boeing 777 sometime after we made our reservations and made a mess out of the seating chart in the process.  We had seats 11K and 12L and hoped to switch seats with someone in order to sit next to each other -- but found out that pretty much everyone in our section was in the same predicament!  There was allot of bartering and switching going on and pretty soon everyone was sitting somewhere and we ended up next to each other in 11K and 11L!  The 10+ hour flight went pretty fast even though neither one of us can sleep on these things -- we read some, watched the horrible Woodie Allen movie "To Rome With Love" and Steve Carell's movie "Seeking a Friend for the End of the World".   We were also happy to find out that Air France had a dedicated bathroom for the Premium Economy section so we no longer had to walk back through the poor pitifull people in Economy to use their bathroom!