someone really needs to stick a post-it note to my head with giant letters spelling out BLOG to my forehead or i swear, i might even forget i have this thing. i meant to update on friday, but i got busy preparing for our vacation, which i am currently enjoying right now
my family from columbus drove up friday night, and we all met at my grandmother’s house early saturday morning, drove to the airport, and caught a flight to texas at around 12:30pm. the first issue of the day was the fact that for some reason, my mother couldnt get her ticket. so she waited in line with my aunt and when she finally got up to the ticket counter, northwest told her that her ticket was never paid for, therefore her reservation on the flight was cancelled. it turns out, we used the points off my dad’s work credit card to get our tickets, and there werent enough points to pay for both, so they paid for mine and instead of paying for the rest of my mom’s with the credit card, they just didnt pay at all and her ticket was cancelled. so, she had to buy a new ticket right then and there, for freaking $874.00!!!!!
so if that didn’t suck enough, our flight was delayed. and i’m not talking to oh-woe-is-us-our-flight-is-delayed-15-minutes. no, i’m saying we were on a plane for SEVEN HOURS instead of the orginally planned THREE. and it wasn’t sitting on a runway-delayed, it was SCARY!
okay, so originally our flight was supposed to land at 2:15 central time, and supposed to take off at like 12:30pm (11:30am central time). but we had delay, so once we were finally in the air, they announced that our new arrival time would be 2:50pm. then, in order to go around some bad weather, a new route added more time onto our flight, so we would be landing at 3:15pm. so everything was supposedly fine then, and we were preparing to land. as we were like going into the final stages of landing, with the landing gear out and everything and getting really dang close to the ground, we suddenly SHOOT BACK UP INTO THE SKY again.
so that was weird and scary. so after that, we spent a long time flying around, going up and down, in and out of the clouds. there was a LOT of turbulance too, so that made it ten times worse. then, we try to land again, and the SAME THING HAPPENS AGAIN! like, we’re landing then shoot straight back up again! finally, after flying around even LONGER in the clouds, the pilot comes on over the god-mic of the plane and says that there were wind sheres (spelling?) and that they were told to abort landing both those times. and because of the constant circling around, waiting for a safe time to land, they were starting to run out of fuel and now we were flying to another airport in another city about 150 miles away to refuel!!!!!!
now, seriously!? like we were all SOOOO ticked off. so we sit there for the 45 minute flight to the place where we refueled, and then by the time we get onto a gate, sit ON THE PLANE and wait for them to refuel, and then get cleared for take off again, its like 5pm central time, a full THREE HOURS after we were have supposed to orginally landed. we finally land in our original destination at 6:13pm.
and keep in mind, my uncle and cousin were waiting at the airport for us since 2:30pm to pick us up. wow, did we feel terrible for making them wait.
so i guess i should be grateful that we didnt die, or something, but it still sucked. and add in the fact that i HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE AM DESPERATELY SCARED OF TERRIFIED MORTIFIED HATE flying to the tenth degree squared. like i can’t even describe to you how much i hate flying. so i was pretty much white-knuckled, gripping the arm rests, biting onto my blanket i had brought with me the entire time, trying to avoid peeing myself or crying out of sheer terror. my 10 year old cousin chloe was hyperventilating at the back of the plane, thanks to the constant up and down movements and turbulance on the plane.
so i guess i’m just ganna hope that this is a very long week, so we dont have to fly back home again on SATURDAY. [cries softly]
PS: i meant to post pictures of my newest FO on friday, but things got too busy. if you go look at my Ravelry account (KelsJoy), he’s under my projects as “Billy”. i’ll post pictures as soon as i get back home and can upload them from my PC.