Great Start to the Holiday Weekend

Just received this email in my inbox.  Somehow both of us just got upgraded at the opening of our upgrade window (48 hours from departure) for our Friday evening United flight to New York.  We're headed to Long Island for a wedding so this is a really good start to the celebration.

I've probably flown to New York a couple of dozen times since moving back to Denver in 2007.  I've had a minimum of Gold each year but was 1K for three years.  I can't ever remember an upgrade cleaning at the opening of the window for one seat...let alone two.

Must be the holiday weekend (a lot of people off for the day or flying earlier in the day) as the seat map showed 21 open first class seats when I looked a few days ago.  Regardless, this is the best kind of Wednesday night email to get!