Rich, Alexander and I are going to a little island in SE Thailand. We have been planning this trip for almost a year. My daughter's best friend is getting married on the beach on March 9th. They asked me to officiate the wedding and they bought Rich and my tickets six months ago. The tickets came in the mail in October. We were leaving March 2nd and returning March 17th. At Christmas we decided to buy Alex a ticket and bring him along....
We planned to go to the airport on March 2nd at around 8:00 p.m. thinking we would get there super early, check in and hang out. The groom and about 20 other people going to the wedding were all on our flight.
Wednesday we went to bed so excited...at midnight my cell phone rang, it was my niece asking me why were not at the airport. The groom didn't know my cell number so he called her worried as they were boarding the plane and we were not there..it dawned on me, oh my gosh...March 2nd at 12:40 a.m.
We missed our flight...
We were in shock...
We cried...
I emailed my daughter, she is already in Thailand with the bride and others and was so excited we were on our way...
We called the airlines to see if we could get on the next flight....they were closed until 6:00 a.m.
We cried...
I began looking online for any possible flight to Bangkok in the next few days...
At 2:30 I took a sleeping pill...
At 6:00 a.m. I called China airlines and they rebooked us for March 4th at 12:40 a.m. with a very minimal change fee... they were very helpful...
It will take longer as our connecting flights had to be rebooked as well so it will take us 24 hours longer than planned to get to the island...
We are going to the airport at 8:00 p.m. tomorrow night...
We are still in shock that we missed it...funny how one's mind can lock into something and then not be able to see the obvious...I think there might be some sort of life illustration in this but don't quite see it yet..
The good news...we will get there...
So our vacation begins...
1 comment:
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