Life has been a bit crazy in all of the right ways. Starting off the summer I went to Disney and Universal with Tyler and then immediately off to Mysteryland with my sister and her husband. I'll post more about that maybe another day. The crazy thing is though we did not leave any tine between trips. I am saying I got home from Disney at 11 pm and left for Mysteryland at 4 am. Then I did the same thing after Mysteryland leaving for China.
We woke up Tuesday morning, showered, packed the car, and we're off to the airport with my dad and Tyler. This is the hardest time I have ever had saying bye. But before I could get choked up we hit our first road block. Well second one, but you'll have to personally ask me to find out what the first was!!!
Upon checking in with the lady we are informed that our flight has been delayed by three hours. This will leave us only 40 minutes to transfer planes in Toronto. Uh oh! Then the lady proceeds to tell us that we aren't even on that flight that the airline has already changed us to the next day. Ummm what!!! This can not be happening to me again. Can I please just fly once without a problem. I guess not because that was only the start.
The rude airline lady said she could do nothing for us, surprise, and pushed us aside. Big surprise when we found out she was a United worker checking people in on Air Canada. Honestly United may be my least favorite airline in history.
While I stood on hold connecting with our airline my mom was able to find a flight with Porter airlines. These workers were beyond nice. They saw what was going on and began to help us out. There was a flight that would be leaving soon and still had seats. The lady on the phone was also helpful and took all of our information. She putt it in the system so that we would be able to get refunded for part of the trip. Yeah this is getting better.
Smooth flight to Toronto City Airport, smooth border control, smooth luggage collection, smooth walkway to the train to take us to the new airport across the city, and then as we step on the train it decides to break down. Come on! Broken train now and only a short time to get to the airport. Unload luggage, move train, new train, load train , and we are off again.
We made it to the airport and have time to check in. All smiles I approach the lady at the desk and she stares at the desk perplexed. Uh oh now what is wrong? She responds saying "Excuse me ma'am but your flight doesn't leave for two more months on August 14th. You will have to come back." After lots of talking and trying to explain we are redirected with 15 minutes until check in closes to a ticketing agent. She stared at me like I was speaking Chinese and could not understand that situation. Our print out tickets from online had the correct dates, our email did, the system had different ones. She finally fixed it, we were ushered to the front of check in, went through security, and then finally took our seats at the boarding gate.
Here we go! We may have started off a bit bumpy but we are on our adventure finally!
P.S. I can not even believe the hassle it is going to be trying to explain and get our first portion of our flight refunded when all of the rest of the tickets were messed up. I can feel the massive amount of emails coming already.
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