Thursday, July 15, 2004

   Get, ready for a long story!
Okay, now that I've calmed down I'll tell ya'll what happened. Okay, well first off yesterday, I felt so sad leaving the airport, I cried, and I haven't cried at an airport for a LONG time. I mean not to sound cold but I've had to say good bye to the ppl I love several times at the airport and it's easier to deal with if you don't cry. Anyways I saw tears welling up in Opa Charly's eyes and it made me realize how much I was gonna miss him, and Tanta Ellen seemed really sad too. I just started tearing up and sniffling. Anyways, well, the flight to Amsterdam didn't take long. It was nice and short. But. the flight from Amsterdam to Minneapolis/St. Paul is LONG! We were on the plane for 8 hours. They had good inflight movies though. They had "The Prince and Me" I really love that movie!! I found it ironic cause in the movie Julia Stiles lives in Wisconsin(my final destination). Anyways they also had "Starsky and Hutch"! I'd been meaning to watch that movie sometime and I finally got my chance! It was good. Okay, so after all that junk happens on the plane, we finally get to Minn./St. Paul. Well we have to go through Customs (fun, fun, NOT!) We had to find our luggage again and that took forever, not to mention our flight was leaving in 40 minutes and the gate was on the whole other side of the building(and this airport is HUGE!) Anyways we find all of our luggage and because dad brought some canned meat we had to have our bags checked. Well, we finally get through that, and we have to have our carry-ons re-X-rayed. And I also have to take my shoes off and have them X-rayed(I felt really stupid). Okay now to mention that my shoes are flip flops with a heel on them, and my back pack weighed a lil' over 10 kilos,(or a lil over 22 lbs). So, yah, and now we are literally running to make our flight cause it's leaving in 20 to 15 minutes. I was swearing really bad cause some of my stuff dropped and dad was faster. Running through there wasn't fun cause of my shoes and my heavy backpack. Well, we make it to our gate about 7 minutes before our flight is to leave. Oh, yes the gate was A10. Then they tell us,"Oh, now your supposed to be at gate A9." So, we run down to A9. Then they say "Oh, now your supposed to be at A14." So we run to A14. Then, a woman says "oh, your flight isn't gonna get here till 6:10. So, we wait about 45 minutes at A14 and then she says"Oh, now your supposed to be at A12" This time we walk instead of run. Thank god! My feet were really hurting. Anyways, yah. We wait for about another 45 minutes and they let us board the plane. Then they tell us they need some confirmation numbers of something and that they were gonna get some ppl from the 3:30 flight to La Crosse on board(I think the flight was cancelled or many ppl missed that flight cause of a damn computer failure of nwa) So, yah. We wait inside the plane for an hour and a half. Then we finally move towards the ramp. And then after about 30 minutes of moving towards the ramp(many other planes were trying to leave too) the pilot comes on the intercom and says "I've got some good news and some bad news. The bad news is... this flight has been cancelled. The good news, WE'RE GOING ANYWAYS!" I was so happy he said that, otherwise I'd be spending the night in that damn airport. Okay, so we get to La Crosse at 9 pm, and we have to call Cathy to pick us up, cause she was told we weren't gonna get there tonight. Well, I watch the conveyer thing for our luggage and guess what, it wasn't there! It"s supposed to be delivered here sometime today. Oh, yah, so we stop by oma's for 5 minutes and leave. We finally get home at 11:30 and I got straigt to bed. I was so tired. Sad thing is, I couldn't sleep well, so I've been up since 5:30. Oh, well. This really sucks cause I can't wash my hair or change clothes. I want to put on clean clothes and take a nice shower. My shoulders are really sore too, I hate it they hurt bad when anything touches them. T_T So my advice to you ppl.. Avoid NORTHWEST AIRLINES!!! Okay, well I suppose I'll try to find something to do with what little stuff I have. I wish you all the best, have a great day! Bye
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