Wednesday, June 30, 2010

This could be one of those memories

So here is a good story I wanted to share from Monday-Tusday: I arrive to Charlotte-Douglas airport at 12.30 pm. I had flight to Helsinki via Washington D.C and Copenhagen. So I go thru the security and all that and wait for an hour and half til the boarding. Just when they're starting it they announce that the flight to D.C is delayed cause of t-storms up there. My connection to Copenhagen would be delayed too and I wouldn't catch my final plane. So I go to the desk and they try to find me a connection to Hki. But apparently UnitedAir. couldn't do anything cause I purchased the ticket from Scandinavian Airlines. So they try calling SAS. Nothing. They tell me that I have to go to D.C and deal with SAS over there. I was ok with that plan, but they still tried calling them. While all of this is going on I chat with the Panthers coach John Fox(!!!!) and take pics of him and the desklady...weird. Anyways finally after good solid 30 mins they get me a flight to Hki via Frankfurt. So I sprint all the way from terminal A to terminal D and go to US air. disk and they are like "Umm you're not on this flight, we don't have your info" even tho I had a ticket in my hand. Well after another 20 mins they get me in there. At this point I was pretty sure that either my luggage would end up somewhere like in China or the t-storms would reach Charlotte. I get into the plane finally at like 5 pm and sit down and think "Is this some sick joke or something, Im pretty short and my legs can't fit" No. It was not a joke. And the lady next to me would not stop talking, so I had to pretend I was sleeping like the whole 8 hours. She was an English teacher from SC and at one point she asked me if I grew up speaking English...I was like "UMMMMM WHAT ARE YOU LIKE DEAF, can't you hear my retarded accent???" Also I was freezing the whole time even with my sweats on. Well at least the meal was decent (WTF?) and we had brownies for dessert!! AND I got the aisle. YAY! But no cute boys..I put that make up on for no reason :( In Frankfurt I'm pretty sure I walked about 2 miles on flipflops just to get to my gate. Lovely. Then I finally arrive Hki 2 hours later than I should have, and I go wait for my luggage. No luggage. yay for me! So all of my stuff is somewhere there just traveling around. And this is not even the end of the story. My friends are there and they are pretty pissed, not of me being late but cause my friend's roommate stole her keyes. So they had to go to Police and like everywhere. Then we got lost in Hki and ended up going to a beach. The weather was actually nice..or it would have been if it hadn't been for the freaking arctic breeze. So I stayed in my sweats while the rest of the finnish population was wearing practically nothing. And finally when it was like 10 pm on Tuesday I got back home! And I'm speaking Finnish with a weird intonation. lol.

Some more posts later with pics WHEN THE STUPID SUITCASE ARRIVES!

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