So I'm a bit under the weather today. I was yesterday as well. I do not know what it is, I think I might have picked up a bug somewhere. So prayers for healing would be great!
The good news, we won't have to pay anything for the oversize and over weight charges! In the past they have cost $200-$500 each way for CTI.
There was an old musician named Paginini. He played Violin. One day he was playing a beautiful concerto, when all of a sudden, one string break. Astonished he keeps playing it on 3. Then... another breaks, incredulous that 2 of his strings could break he improvises what he can on 2 strings. Finally, a third string breaks. As he finishes the piece on one string, the crowd gives him a huge ovation, expecting him to leave then. He says "Paginini and one string". Then he plays an encore on his one string.
I tell you this story so you can understand the analogy I will make. We won't have to pay anything because NOTHING over 50 lbs or 61 linear inches (length + width + height) will go with us. Continental has been very strict about this. Going so far as to put it in our flight records that we have been informed multiple times. So we cannot show up and claim ignorance. What does this means? Well, the keyboard, kick drum on the drum set, acoustic guitars, and bass guitar are all over size limit. THe keyboard and drum are also over the weight limit. So right now we take my sound system (which now is 100% under limits) vocal mics, electric guitars, and some smaller parts of the drums. We feel like we have had some strings break. THere is still time for this to change, so you can be praying for someone at Continental to let us take it, or if any of you know someone from Continental that would be willing to let a BAND take MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, that'd be awesome. It's slightly astonishing that you cannot take an acoustic guitar on a plane right now, at least not to South America.
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