Many of you know that we've been living in Cali for almost forever and we're never leaving right? ha ha! Well hopefully the last part isn't true but regardless, it was time of the T fam to take advantage of West Coast living and visit even further west! The T fam packed up on June 24th and headed to the airport for a week in Hawaii! *this is where your happy dance begins*
Day 1: *happy dance continues* We headed down to San Diego for our flight to San Fran. San Diego doesn't have direct flights to HI so you have to fly to either LA or SF, so weird! We checked in, did the whole security thing and got ready to do the waiting. *this is where your happy dance stops* We waited...and waited... A 1:30 flight ended up being delayed by 2 hours. At first it was air traffic control and then it was weather (still don't know the real answer since other flights from other airlines were landing in SF perfectly fine!). We only had an hour layover in SF so we had our fingers crossed that United was delayed in leaving SF as well.
We finally take off and get to SF, 10 min. after our connecting flight closed its doors. Everyone with me now...WHAT?!!! Now we've flown plenty of times and have never missed a connecting flight. I have also never heard of a flight NOT being held when there is a decent sized group that is on the way (yes, there were over 10 people that were on the way that landed just after the flight to HI closed it's doors). Thankfully United put us on the "next available" flight that had space....7 pm on Tuesday. Again, WHAT?!!! So Mike and I ventured to the customer service place and stood in an ever growing line to get this situated. We ended up being put on a 4:15 flight on Tuesday with guaranteed seats and on a 9:30 flight standby. Off to the USO we go! (BTW, the SF USO is AMAZING! The volunteers were so kind, a huge thanks to them!!!). It was a long night but we survived. Still not happy...
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| sleepy at the USO |
Day 2: *semi-happy dance* Wash, rinse, repeat.... Got seats on the 9:30 flight but it is delayed. First it's in the hanger, then there's a mechanical issue, then there is only one runway, then it's in Atlanta (huh?!). We never got a straight answer as to why this flight was delayed for 7 (yes SEVEN) hours. During this time we did meet an amazing family that we became instant friends with (hurray for rainbows!!!). So 3:30 rolls around and off we go to get on the 4:15 flight. The only holdup was it needed to be brought in from the hanger (uh....anyone see an issue here?). So we all got seats on this flight, new friends included. We were FINALLY on our way, still in the same clothes, already tired of airport food and in desperate need of a shower!!!
Day 3 and beyond are to come!
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