The Royal Treatment

Have you ever felt like you were being treated like royalty? Well, just recently I traveled to Hawaii and I was blown away by my experience traveling there. I boarded the small plane in Grande Prairie only to discover that my seat was on the last row and THE closest seat to the lavatory. I could stretch out my arm (only half way) and I could touch the door of the toilet. HOW pleasant is that? Before the plane took off the stewardess came to the back and said there were lots of empty seats at the front and the two of us went and took better seats. I had a couple empty seats to myself. Now that's a good deal. I flew to Calgary where I had to take a shuttle to the Super 8 motel for the night. I was instructed to call the shuttle from the shuttle post just outside the airport. When I got to the post, the shuttle was ALREADY there. A family had already called it in. The driver motioned for me to sit in the front seat. After a short sleep, I woke before the early birds wake for the 5am shuttle. The driver was a very joyfilled Christian, whisling away as he loaded people's luggage and whisked us away to the airport. I checked in and found my gate, then proceded to have breafast and back to the gate for boarding. As they began the preboarding announcement I look down at my ticket to see what seat I was in and read, "FIRST CLASS." WHAT? I've never sat in first class before. But sure enough there it was. I remembered that when my parent's used their airmiles they said the only way to get to Hawaii when I wanted to was to go on business class. The Calgary to Pheonix flight was first class - with extra space and special treatment; and the flight from Pheonix to Honolulu was also first class. Infact, my seat number to Honolulu was 1A. You can't get much closer to the first than that. I started out at the worst seat possible and ended up at the first of the line. I was greeted in Hawaii by my parents who crowned me with a Hawaiian Lei. I wonder if these things are just circumstances or maybe, just maybe, there is an unseen King who seeks to crown us with royal treatment.