I’m writing this from the airport. Where we have been all day. We left the cottage at 8:30 for a 12:20 fight. It’s now 2:15. Our connection flight was canceled. They wanted us to stay overnight and all day tomorrow in the airport and leave for home at 9:30 tomorrow night. So we had to reroute and deal with customer service. Now were flying out at 5:30 and arriving home at midnight – HOPEFULLY. This trip has been a travel nightmare. And American Airlines is, of course, blaming all the delays and cancellations on weather. That way they don’t have to reimburse you or pay for food and hotels. Such fucking bullshit. It’s the lies that really piss me off.
Our vacation was great though. I usually don’t like this trip much because the cottage is far too small and unairconditioned and has a single bathroom for 6 grown adults. However, with just the 4 of us siblings, it was great. I mean, we all feel bad that it was great. Of course, it’s sad we didn’t get to see Mr C’s parents. However, it was really nice just being the siblings. It was so much more chill. And so much more roomy.
We went to the beach almost every day. I got in the ocean a lot. I lost my mountain toppers on the second ocean adventure. I managed to hang onto my glasses when an unexpected wave nailed me but the toppers slipped from my grasp. They were my favorites too. After that, I just didn’t wear toppers in the ocean. I’m learning. Slowly.
We played a lot of games. I even joined in the family tradition of pinochle which I’ve refused for a decade. Mr C’s family is SERIOUS about pinochle. They even buried his grandma with a perfect pinochle hand. So we played 3 games. Mr C and I lost the tie breaker last night. This pinochle participation shall never be spoken of outside of the group.
We also played a ton of Splendor. I brought the fancy glass gems and metal doubloons set I got for Christmas. The gem set costs more than the actual game. But playing a game with really nice pieces makes such a huge difference. It’s so much more fun to really hold the gems and gold and feel fancy. We played Five Crowns too. I won last night!
So vacation was really good. Now, if we can just get home, we’ll be solid.
UPDATE: It’s now Sunday morning. After I wrote the above post, we got delayed and canceled again. We rerouted and arrived home after a late connection in Miami. I was getting into bed at 3:00am. Oh, and they lost our luggage. Fucking American Airlines. We really enjoyed the trip but this was the trip travel from travel hell:
1 Saturday flight out, canceled.
2 Sunday we arrived at the airport, got a pat down at security and it was canceled after we sat there two hours.
3 Monday we finally made it out on a delayed flight. We made our connection because it was also delayed. Arrived at the cottage at 3:00 AM
4 We arrive to fly home at 9:30am. First Saturday flight gets pushed back further and further and further. We spend hours at Gate 8.
5 Find out the connection we are about to fly to is canceled.
6 Reroute through a different airport that has a connection to home. Also going to leave from Gate 8. Decide that Gate 8 is really just the “fuck you” gate. Flight gets pushed back so many times that we are in jeopardy of missing the home connection.
7 Rebook on a flight that leaves a little sooner to make the connection.
8 Leave Boston around 6:00pm. Arrive to find the connection has been pushed back.
9 Home connection gets pushed back, like five times. We were supposed to arrive home at midnight with the new flights (was going to be 630pm with the original booking). We got home at 2am.
10 Our luggage apparently never even left Boston. Still waiting to hear from them on that.
