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Ok kids, i'm home..would you like to know what time I got home? You really aren't going to believe me..6:30 this morning!!!WHAT A NIGHTMARE! We got to the airport OK..there were tons of National Guard but security wasn't so bad.
You couldn't bring even LIPGLOSS on the plane with you. We knew before getting there that we were checking our two little bags due to lotions and what not, but lipgloss? This is getting silly now!
So we're sitting at the gate, plane supposed to leave at 3:45..3:20 rolls around, we haven't boarded..sign changes to 4:05..Finally at around 4ish, we boarded the plane..where we sat..for hours..til about 9:oo, before they decided we should go back to the gate..
Because of the security issues, everything just piles up, and there is a line of planes waiting to fly out! Then, there is a thunderstorm, while we are on the runway, can't go anywhere..then there is a mysterious thunderstorm in Newark!!
Stuck stuck stuck..At around 9ish, he decided to pull back into the gate..says he's cancelling our flight. I called my best friend to come get me. She only lives like 15 minutes from the airport, so she heads over. She gets to the airport before we even make it back to the gate!! We get back to the gate and he tells us it isn't cancelled, but just delayed again, and that we should all get something to eat and prepare to reboard!!
By this time, I'm nearly dieing, cranky, bitchy, flipping my shit. I call my best friend and tell her that we don't need to come back and it will cost us to delay our flight (yeah, like this is our problem now, it doesn't matter, it gets WORSE)We get to Newark FINALLY at about 1:30..the clincher? The last train to Trenton (not like it matters, light rail stopped running at 9) leaves at 2:05..
Get luggage, get tickets...Joe and I each take a job..and get on monorail to go to plane..can we make it??
No..no we can't make it..we COULD have made it just fine..except when the monorail decides to turn around at P4 at precisely 1:57, where we had 7 minutes to get to the other rail station and RUN for the train at 2:04..
no..now we've officially missed it because the monorail has a mind of it's own. Stuck..at Newark airport...for HOURS!!
Of course, with hundreds of other travelers sleeping on benches because they've gotten severely delayed whether it be from Heathrow or anywhere else, missing connections and what not. FINALLY, we caught the 4:30 train from Newark to Trenton, and the 6:10 light rail home..I walked in my door and the sun was up..I could have driven home from Atlanta quicker than it took me to fly..If you've gotten this far, you deserve a big hug!
More Atlanta fun and pictures to come later!
Ok kids, i'm home..would you like to know what time I got home? You really aren't going to believe me..6:30 this morning!!!WHAT A NIGHTMARE! We got to the airport OK..there were tons of National Guard but security wasn't so bad.
You couldn't bring even LIPGLOSS on the plane with you. We knew before getting there that we were checking our two little bags due to lotions and what not, but lipgloss? This is getting silly now!
So we're sitting at the gate, plane supposed to leave at 3:45..3:20 rolls around, we haven't boarded..sign changes to 4:05..Finally at around 4ish, we boarded the plane..where we sat..for hours..til about 9:oo, before they decided we should go back to the gate..
Because of the security issues, everything just piles up, and there is a line of planes waiting to fly out! Then, there is a thunderstorm, while we are on the runway, can't go anywhere..then there is a mysterious thunderstorm in Newark!!
Stuck stuck stuck..At around 9ish, he decided to pull back into the gate..says he's cancelling our flight. I called my best friend to come get me. She only lives like 15 minutes from the airport, so she heads over. She gets to the airport before we even make it back to the gate!! We get back to the gate and he tells us it isn't cancelled, but just delayed again, and that we should all get something to eat and prepare to reboard!!
By this time, I'm nearly dieing, cranky, bitchy, flipping my shit. I call my best friend and tell her that we don't need to come back and it will cost us to delay our flight (yeah, like this is our problem now, it doesn't matter, it gets WORSE)We get to Newark FINALLY at about 1:30..the clincher? The last train to Trenton (not like it matters, light rail stopped running at 9) leaves at 2:05..
Get luggage, get tickets...Joe and I each take a job..and get on monorail to go to plane..can we make it??
No..no we can't make it..we COULD have made it just fine..except when the monorail decides to turn around at P4 at precisely 1:57, where we had 7 minutes to get to the other rail station and RUN for the train at 2:04..
no..now we've officially missed it because the monorail has a mind of it's own. Stuck..at Newark airport...for HOURS!!
Of course, with hundreds of other travelers sleeping on benches because they've gotten severely delayed whether it be from Heathrow or anywhere else, missing connections and what not. FINALLY, we caught the 4:30 train from Newark to Trenton, and the 6:10 light rail home..I walked in my door and the sun was up..I could have driven home from Atlanta quicker than it took me to fly..If you've gotten this far, you deserve a big hug!
More Atlanta fun and pictures to come later!
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