Sunday, September 12, 2010

We made it!

We are FINALLY in beautiful Hawaii after some very interesting events!  We took off bright and early Friday morning with an uneventful flight to Denver.  We had a 2 hour stopover, just enough time for a quick lunch.  We boarded our next flight on time but ended up sitting on the tarmac for 2 hours before we were informed that our aircraft was unfit to make the journey to Honolulu.  So we had to deplane and board on another plane that they miraculously pulled out of a hat!  We re-boarded and took off within an hour, quite amazingly fast, if you ask me.  This whole event just added an additional 3 hours to our already long 14 hour trip.  Wait!  It doesn't end there.  2.5 hours into the flight, we were told that we had a situation on board.  A passenger did not have enough oxygen to sustain her to Hawaii so we had to backtrack to San Francisco!  Yup, we landed, dropped the teen and her family off and took off again all within an hour!  Quite amazing once again.  But since we had to backtrack to SF, this lttle detour added another 2 hours.  So by the time we made it to Hawaii, we had flown 19 hours and had been up for 24 hours.  Talk about being zooed!

2 comments:

Wanda said...

Wowzers. I remember when you went off to Paris on a girl's trip - I thought - oh yeah, I could so do that. And now Hawaii. Yeah. Wowzers.

Have a ball. I know you will!!!
xoxo

Natalie said...

Hey, take it this way: at least, there was no squirmy, whiny, fidgety baby on your lap! ;o)

Still, I hope they gave you extra wine.