Sunday, August 1, 2010

Aventura #1

Well, we haven't even left the country and the adventures have begun! While waiting for our flight out of Milwaukee this afternoon, Amy and heard the news that LaGuardia Airport had declared a ground stop, meaning no flights in and no flights out due to the weather. As the clocked ticked by, and no news of a lifted stop came, we watched our four-hour window of time to change terminals in New York dwindling.

When AirTran finally dropped us at LaGuardia two hours late, we waited for our luggage (which always seem to be the last bags unloaded, don't they?) and then sprinted outside to catch the shuttle. Understand that Amy and I are laden with heavy back-packs, computer bags, and two 50 lb. suitcases each, so the term "sprinted" is used very loosely. Outside the airport we learned we had just missed the shuttle to JFK. 25 minutes later, we boarded the bus, and 30 minutes after that, we "sprinted" into JFK, took the escalator ("took" meaning "dropping Amy's luggage and watching it get mauled by"), and found a member of the JetBlue staff to assist us in checking in.

It was 7:50pm. Our flight closed check-in at 7:35pm. They could get us on the next flight, at 11:59pm.

We conceded, and found ourselves a place to sit down, drink rum and cokes, and eat a meal for the first time that day.

When we finally got to Gate 27, our flight had been delayed until 12:50am.

We are currently still waiting at Gate 27, and our flight is now scheduled to take off at 1:50am. Let the good adventures begin!

1 comment:

  1. The best part (and by that I mean worst) is that we are only on standby so we won't know until everyone else has boarded whether or not we will make it on...

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