Thursday, July 30, 2009

the journey

so, obviously we all made it here safely! almost a week ago. things got better as the journey went on. it all started with some moron at wpg airport security. after being asked to hold my belt open with both hands so i could be scanned WHILE HOLDING SLOANE, i thought i should put sloane down, and was told to pick her back up. j intervened by picking her up and was quickly told to put her down so i could grab her.....while holding my belt open.....with both hands......arrrrrrrggghhhh. after turning around so he could scan my rear side, he informed me that he was 1 minute from shutting the whole airport down on my account and none of this would have happened if i would have remembered to take off my belt. i'm getting pissed off just typing this. j told me to forget about it.....so i did after repeating a few "serenity nows".

flight to TO was kinda brutal b/c s was crazy and needing to be all over the place. flight to london was delayed a half hour or an hour. first class rocks, although we deserve a discount b/c i didn't eat or drink anything. i did make use of my air canada slippers though. s passed out before our flight even took off, sometime around midnight. i passed out shortly after, and we woke up half an hour before our flight landed. phew. it could have gone much worse! i had visions of no sleep and walking up and down the isles for 7 hours. it was a bit of a gong show when we landed, as our connecting flight to glasgow took off 30 minutes after we landed. air canada was nice enough to drive us across the tarmac and escort us to customs, but we still missed our flight. the following one was 4 or 5 hours later. man, there were some pissed off canadians. we went to the private lounge and had a nap.....s included.

anyways, the flight to glasgow was uneventful and now we're here!

1 comment:

Kathleen Sauerbrei said...

Holding a baby while holding your belt open?
Is/was he bloody stupid?
Good for you calming down though, I doubt if I could have.
Have a wonderful time while your there .....
Be well and enjoy!
~~Auntie Kitty