Saturday, June 7, 2008

We FINALLY made it

Well, we made it to Florida, FINALLY. We spent about 12 hours on the plane/in the airport. We we're originally supposed to leave at 10:30 a.m. so we arrived at the airport at about 8:15. When we got there we found that the flight was delayed until 10:55. This put our connection in Albuquerque in jeopardy, but the airline said they would hold the flight. A while later we noticed that the board said 11:50. At that point, they called us all to the desk and told us we needed to be rerouted. They put us on a flight through St. Louis which did not require a change of planes, which was good, but it would put us in Orlando at 7:25 p.m. instead of 6:10 as originally scheduled. At least we would still get there on Friday. When we got to St. Louis the flight attendant asked that everyone going on to Orlando stay on the plane so they could get a head count. Then after everyone got off the plane that was not going on, they announced that the next flight crew had not arrived yet and would be an hour late. so we could go get something to eat or whatever, but we needed to be back in 20 minutes. We got something to eat and were dutifully back in 20 minutes. They boarded the other passengers and we proceeded to wait 30-45 minutes for the next flight crew. The finally arrived and they shut the doors and we pushed back from the gate and were off, sort of. About this time Hannah said she needed to go potty, and when she says that she means it. The problem is that during taxi and climb out they don't let you get out of your seat (more on that in a minute). We started to taxi and went a ways, but them stopped. We sat on the taxiway for about 25 minutes (Hannah still needing to go). We moved about 400 yards and stopped again for about 25 minutes (see above). At that point that captain came on the intercom and said that we were being delayed because of weather, but that ATC had rerouted us around the weather and we were cleared for take-off. We FINALLY got here at about 8:30 p.m. So, to make a long story short, we are here!!!

2 comments:

joel baby said...

did you have to strap aunt edna to the roof of the plane? was wally world closed when you got there? have fun.

Big Kahuna said...

No and no