Hello Elizabeth. I hope the rest of your trip is better.

Thanks. EL

Kathleen and I were delayed there once, and we found a wine bar on one concourse that served pretty good local vintages. We sat in rocking chairs and shared a bottle. Best hour we ever spent in an airport.

Have you ripped your t-shirt yet JM?

So ... looking at the picture above, I'm just wondering what, exactly, does "Tequileria Pronto!" really mean?

El, I've HAD one of those flights except it was the whole 2 hours back from Florida! You have my deepest sympathy! The turbulance was nothing compared to the screaming kids, the guy eating a smelly cold cut sub and my broken headphones.

Hope you are now in sunshine - and please bring it home with you!

If you can't see a rainbow, does it exist?

Happy landings! If you have to be stranded, Charlotte is a better choice than many.

If you want to see rainbows, and lots of them, visit Iceland. I saw 5 in one day, 3 while soaking in hot water.

I hope it improves. The last time I was stranded by the airlines (coming back from Iceland, natch), Amtrak saved the day. I got home over 12 hours earlier than my rescheduled flight would have gotten me in.

Dahlink is right, Charlotte is a better place to get stuck than, lets say, Atlanta. The rocking chairs are a nice touch, and the fact there is so much glass to let the sunlight inside.

MD Canon, the "Tequileria Pronto!" is where you can get food to go there.

So far, my travels through Charlotte have been smooth. I usually allow myself enough layover time to have lunch.

EL, on your way back, the Fox Sky Box's food isn't bad, believe it or not.

FAA regulations require at least one screaming baby per flight. Some of us seem to be flagged so that they sit near us.

Unfortunately, with them behind you, you could not easily stick your tongue out at them and make silly faces. I find that often curtails the screaming...at least for a few minutes!

I'm seeing more and more rocking chairs in airports. Fine with me - I love rocking chairs, and since I have cats, I don't have one at home.

We have a bunch on the observation deck at BWI. If you haven't been up there, I highly recommend it. Had to kill a couple hours waiting for a friend's flight once, and I really enjoyed hanging out up there, looking at the exhibits, watching the planes, rocking and drinking a cup of coffee.

Well, didn't enjoy the coffee so much, but I don't expect to when I'm out.

Oh and Charlotte has a pretty good BBQ stall in the food court.

Whenever my wife flies through Charlotte the price for my driving over to the airport to pick her up is that she schlep home a BBQ platter of pulled pork, mac and cheese and fried pickles. I offer my apologies for those other passengers who have to endure the aroma of BBQ throughout the cabin, especially since the only food options for them are pretzels and peanuts.

I hope that, at least, the margarita was a good one. If it's the same one I had at the Tequileria last fall, it was big anyway. Mine came in a big glass, with the leftovers served, Fribble-style, in a cocktail shaker. It was way more than I'd bargained for...

It was good, but I didn't get a cocktail shaker. EL

Love me some Fribbles

Fribble style? Please explain. Thank you.

TM,
A Fribble was a milkshake from Freindly's. They made it in a metal cup on one of those milkshake blenders and served it in a glass.Whatever didn't fit in the glass was served in the metal cup.

I thought a Fribble was the cuddly, furry thing that multplies quickly and causes havoc on the Enterprise.

Fribble, my tush. That was the way real milk shakes and malts were traditionally served. That pre-dates Friendly's.

I used to make a mean double chocolate malt in my day.

Oh my god, I completely forgot about Fribbles! And I used to love them. I endured many an icecream headache woofing down those things.

I didn't mean to imply that Friendly's invented the metal cup/blender style of making a milkshake, I was simply trying to explain what a Fribble was, in reference to kitpollard's earlier post.I am indeed old enough to remember getting an old fashioned milkshake at Read's Drug Store long before Friendly's.

RayRay,
If you remember the milkshakes at Read's, then you remember the fountain at Kresge's on the corner.

RoCK,
You're right, that BBQ place in Charlotte is very good. I'd never had a fried pickle before, and they seem to give everyone one.

PCB Rob,
I was going to mention Kresge's, but I thought that the Reads counter had a more classic feel. Not to take anything away from Kresge'. I remember that the counter had a string of balloons with a piece of paper inside with a price on it. You would pop the balloon and whatever price was inside, that was what you paid for a sundae. Also I spent many a saturday there perusing the "wall of models" trying to decide how to spend my allowance.