Back home…huh?!?
Sometimes things don’t happen as you planned…
Warning…this will be a longgggg post 🙂
I started of so good this morning, got up at 6am (aahhhhhh! Was lucky
to get at least ‘some’ hours of sleep!), packed the last things and
left home around 7.30am. No traffic jam (amazing, even for a Saturday
:)) and cam e at the airport around 8.15. First bummer, it was supposed
to be THE busiest day of the year, yeah…indeed, it was! Anyway, made
it all the way to the check-in and got asked the flightnumber for the
connecting flight in Frankfurt (to Calgary)…the nice lady at the
check-in counter couldn’t trace it for me (WTF???)…how should I know?
I’m on a (crew)standby ticket! Kristel didn’t pick up the phone, so I
had to place a wake-up call to Rob & Stef and ask them to check it
on the Net (pity my boss doesn’t allow GPRS). Long story short,
we managed and I got on the plane to Frankfurt!
Part 1 of 2 succeeded, the day looked promising…
I enjoyed a mere 3.5 hours transfer in Frankfurt and arrived at the gate…ooch…BUSYYYYY! 🙁 🙁
Flight was completely full and already overbooked and I was left behind
with 14 others….DAMN! This means that ALL plans had to be
changed…and, no Canada for me today 🙁 : (
Got in contact with Kissy who obviously was as disappointed as me!
Together we decided my best option would be to return to Amsterdam and
try other flights from Amsterdam on Sunday…my first day off was well
spend, trip to Frankfurt and back, sjeez!!
One would think things can’t be easier; return back to Amsterdam after
making sure my luggage was following me. Well, Murphy joined me on my
flight…bagage reclaim in Amsterdam airport dropped shitloads of
luggage except mine!!!!
It turned out that the bags were still in Frankfurt, waiting for the
Sunday flight to Calgary, WTF again! Can’t people just for once NOT
screw up???
No drama, it just took time (and time and time)…hopefully my bags
would still make it back before I planned to leave on Sunday, so I
could take them with me, NICE!
By now I am back home with a ticket for tomorrows flight in my pocket
(again the cheap crew-standby fare). Was just called that my bags will
be put on the Sunday Frankfurt-Calgary flight afterall. Only thing I
have to do is make it on my flight from Amsterdam (via Vancouver to
Calgary)…easy rigth? Orrrrrr….euhhh, I already know by now that the
flight is full and 9 other standby passengers are having higher
priority…guess I need some help from the cosmos tomorrow!
All in all a nice day, saw Frankfurt airport and it seems my bags have a higher chance of making it….amazing!!
So, wish me luck…no further postings means good news!!
btw. my alarmclock is set to 6am again, people who know me will perfectly understand my feelings 🙂
