Oh the FUN of Traveling

     Oh the joys of travel.   I caught a 6:20am flight from Key West to Miami; it was a great flight with a beautiful sunrise.    Then I got to Miami where if it could go wrong it has.   First I sat in the wrong gate area, and almost missed my boarding, but I did make it aboard.   Sat down in my seat and got myself nested in the “personal area” and started doing a Sudoku.  Two completed Sudoku’s later comes the first delay announcement.   “It will be about 30 minutes and we will be underway”   45 minutes later we are deplaning with “all of our personal belongs” we are back in the terminal waiting for the next announcement.   Yeah we have a new gate and we are boarding at 1:30 pm.  It is now 2:15 and they say we are boarding at 2:30, I wonder when we will be told that the flight has been cancelled and we will be staying in Miami for the night?

     This too will hopefully pass and I’ll be in beautiful Trinidad before the night is over and I get to try tomorrow to get there.    I see the pilot on the phone, and he doesn’t look as though he is jumping for joy.   Could it be another announcement is in the works?   The passengers are getting more and more restless as another projected time passes and we are still in the terminal.   I wish I had a nice top shelf rum with a couple of cubes of ice, but I really don’t need to be drinking before heading up to altitude.   Let’s see what they are going to announce this time.   Ok now they are calling for a 3:00 pm departure, I wonder what the odds makers in     Vegas are saying about this prediction.   I have to keep up the comic way of looking at the whole thing, or else I might start to become upset by it all.   I was supposed to have been in Trinidad an hour ago, and I’m still in the terminal in Miami.   They have just decided that the problem is a major one and the plane will require major work and will not be able to fly today.   This is what they told us at 11:00 am when we gathered our belongings to deplaned.   I guess they could not find a working plane her in the hub at Miami.  

     Now I am waiting for the next announcement, this is beginning to remind me of an old tv serial  where you have to wait until next week to find out what happens next.     The new announcement has us headed to another gate where they say there is a third plane that will be able to take us to Trinidad.   Well we have been on the plane again for about 45 minutes and they have decided the plane is over weight because they put the wrong amount of fuel on board and some of it needs to be drained off.

     We are airborne finally 8 hours later than scheduled, but we are finally heading in the right direction.  11:30 and I'm at the hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad.   Say Good Night Bob.

Good Morning Trinidad!!   ;o)