Sunday, October 09, 2005

The Bad Luck Continues...

Thursday morning I went to DFW to catch a flight to Louisville, Kentucky with one of my good friends Mallory and her sister, Macy for an Arbonne convention that was fantastic!!!
Here is how it went...
10:30 AM Arrived at airport, checked bags (which I NEVER do) wait to board
11:40 AM Scheduled departure
12:00 PM First announcement of water in a closet of the airplane
12:15 PM Deboard the plane as they are tearing up the floorboards
12:30, 1:15, 1:45, 2:00 - All times we watched on the screen of new departure times
2:05 PM Originally scheduled time of arrival in Louisville and we are still at gate B15 waiting
3:15 PM Moved to new gate to get on a new plane to take off
3:30 PM Announcement that the new plane has Instrumentation problems-wait another 15 min.
3:45 PM Announcement from the pilot that the flight has been CANCELLED!!!!
4:45 PM Rebooked on a flight to Nashville, TN because all other flights to Louisville are booked and the earliest we would get there direct would be Friday afternoon.
7:45 PM Arrived in Nashville however our bags did not
8:00 PM Picked up the rental car and GPS that Brad reserved for us and drove 3 hours to Louisville
11:30 PM Arrived at the Hyatt in Louisville-again with no bags

Friday morning:
6:45 AM Rolled out of bed and went to the conference-the hotel gave us toothbrushes-we didn't even brush our hair.
12 noon Got lost returning rent car because the GPS navigation didn't work
5 PM - Conference over for the day and Mallory & I had luggage waiting at the hotel-Macy's was still missing. Ugh-it was awful but at least we could all share and Macy and I can wear the same size!
5:25 PM - Never happier to be clean in my life!!! :) And I will NEVER again check bags!

Saturday morning:
7:00 AM - Macy's bag finally arrives
5:52 flight to DFW- I had one foot on the plane, Mal & Macy already are seated, and they stopped boarding because someone on the flight before threw up all over two rows-including the walls and seat pockets and the cleaning guy just wiped it off with a paper towel! GROSS! It was actually the row behind mine too!
6:02 PM Take off and home to Dallas! THANK GOODNESS!!!

Although the travel part was the biggest nightmare, our conference was incredible. It was a very motivating, encouraging, even spiritual experience. Arbonne and the opportunity it gives people is such a gift.
Hope you all had a great weekend and it was a little less nuts than mine!

3 comments:

James M. said...

Had trouble finding the drop off location with a GPS device.

That is defintely one for the books. At least everything worked on your plane. Way to go Brad with the car rental.

After looking at the Arbonne website is there a way with some shadowing, I can my gut look smaller?

MereMoore said...

yes-arbonne can do miracles with any part of your body!

Finally an Abrigg..... said...

I don't know you, but I got to your blog somehow...I think through Leslie Mayo's. Macy was my roommate 3 years in college. I just started giggling when I read this.