It is now Florida time, 8:40AM on Saturday. San Francisco time is 5:41AM on Saturday and I have now officially been awake 24 hours!! Ok, so I caught a few cat-naps and maybe a good hour of sleep at the 24 hour Subway here at the airport!! Now I do not arrive in Sydney until 8PM Sunday night, (Sydney time, Monday morning Florida time.) instead of 8AM Sunday morning...and I will miss Stella's birthday party in the park!!LOL!! Are you following all that??
This story begins after all 365 people are all settled on the plane yesterday at 10:00PM (San Fran time). We were filling out our Australian Customs forms and the pilot said, "Just a slight problem with the entertainment system. We are 30 minutes ahead of schedule...no worries!!" Yeah, right!!! We sat on the plane 2 hours more and then they made us get off the plane, followed by another hour wait and finally, we are ready to re-board, only to hear that dreaded phrase. "The flight has been cancelled!!" The airline offered to put us all up in a hotel, give us 2 generous $7.00 vouchers for meals and we have a new flight at 10:30AM (San Fran time) Saturday morning. So, by the time they took each of the 365 people to the ticketing area, found hotels and shuttles, issued our new tickets for this morning...it was 3:00AM. Here's where I opted out of the hotel mess (there were lines still waiting for the shuttles when I went to 'bed' at Subway). Keeping in mind that this is still Thanksgiving week-end and they told us to expect long lines at security...which all 365 people have to go through AGAIN!! I think I made a good decision to not spend 2 hours in a hotel and worry about hearing my alarm, finding a shuttle, getting back to the airport and being in lines out the door. Yep, me and 6 other people are already re-checked in and waiting at our gate!!! No worries here!!!
I met a nice young couple who just got married last week and they are going to Australia and Fiji for their honeymoon. We sat next to each other from Newark to San Fran and keep running into each other as we are making the same decisions!! Reminds me of the Amazing Race!!! We are winning!!!
Jason and I have been in constant communication and he said he will be there Sunday 'night with bells on and not to worry because it will all be good when I get there!!' Wow...can't ask for a more wonderful son!!!!
Next post should be from Sydney!! Love and hugs to all!!!
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