Sunday, May 04, 2008

Visit to the ‘rents- part I
Finally. FINALLY!!!!!!!!! Gheesh, we got back home a week ago.

(note to self- 100 sit-ups or some other excruciating punishment next time this happens).

It takes two flights on two different airlines to get to my parents' place. The first leg, Alaska, had problems from the get-go. Here's kinda how it went. Note- the pilot came out to make every one of these announcements. We later discovered that he was just as yacky when behind the wheel.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it looks like we're going to have a slight delay. The temperature controls aren't working quite right so we've decided to fix it here, since we have the parts. It should only be a few minutes. "

20 minutes later

"Ladies and gentlemen, we thought that this would be something we could quickly fix, but once we got it apart it was apparent that we needed a part that we don't have here. Someone is driving to the Boeing plant to pick up that part. It looks like we have tail winds going to our destination. We should be able to make up the time."

20 minutes later

"Ladies and gentlemen, we've picked up the part and we're now installing it. We should be boarding soon."

....and we did- approximately 1.5 hours after we were supposed to leave.

Still, we thought we'd make the second flight because we had 2 hours between flights. We weren't worried.

Until......

"Ladies and gentlemen, you've probably noticed that we've been sitting on the tarmac for quite some time. Apparently a passenger got on the wrong airplane and we have to wait until they taxi that plane back to the gate. We should be on our way shortly. Please stay in your seats. "

OK, that's when I started to panic. I'd asked my parents to pick us up from the airport at 5:05. I had no way to call them to tell them that we might not make that flight.

The story is getting long enough. I'll end it by letting you know that we did NOT make that flight. Since there were no more flights going to that airport that night, Alaska set us up in the roach motel and gave us food vouchers for the night.

::I'm not kidding about the roach motel comment::

We left the hotel at a bright and early 6am and caught the first flight out in the morning.

Stay tuned for part II

RisibleGirl was blabbing on about her adventures again on 05/04 at 09:08 AM

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