Flight, Pt. 1

Well to start this off, shortly and concisely, this has been the trip from Satan. Literally. It all started last night around six thirty whenever Delta Airlines called us to let us know that our flight had been cancelled and we had to move to another flight. That should have been a tip off right there, but seeing as we now did not have to get up at the butt crack of dawn, Mom and I were grateful. We arrive at JAX around 1:30 and check in, get lunch, and simply wait. Where we find out that our flight from JAX to ATL has been delayed. We board out plane and wait to take off. The we had to circle around ATL because of storms and an overload on Air Traffic Control. We land and meander our way to our gate because now instead of a one hour layover, we now have a three and a half hour one. Perfect, right?

As we’re dutifully waiting for our flight to take off the thunder storm rages on and the flight gets delated thirty minutes… and then an hour. And around 8, our flight is completely cancelled. Seeing as you can’t fly without a pilot, and our pilot was stuck somewhere else is the USA, we were not heading anywhere. 

Mom and I end up canceling our flight because the next open one is the 28, and since I have to be in Nashville by the 28 anyway, we swiftly declined and cancelled the flight entirely and are going to drive to Nashville. As we’re walking away from the gate my mom says two of the most fatal words of the night, “YOUR LUGGAGE?!” We find out that it’s at least a two hour wait to even get baggage from a cancelled flight on a clear day, so of course the wait is upped for one with storms and thirty other cancelled flights from that day. We’re told that the luggage will probably come within about four hours. Keep in mind that this is around 8. We are now in hour 3:15 in waiting for our luggage, and have a screaming child to keep us entertained. Oh the joys. 

After we get my luggage the fun will only begin, we have a 1:30 drive to Calhoun and then we have a three hour trip from there to Nashville. This trip will continued to be logged.