The Joys of Flight: Stranded
Sep. 5th, 2006 05:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mythtellerSo I'm stranded in Edmonton for a night. Here's what happened.
We left our host family this morning at 8am and headed for the airport. We dropped off the rental car, got through security, boarded our plane, and waited.
And waited. And waited. And then.... we waited some more.
Then we all disembarked. Air Canada was very sorry to inform us that the computer system for their Jazz service had crashed (wrongword, wrongword, wrongword) across Canada, so the planes could not get their flightplans from the Control Tower. Therefore, all the Jazz flights had been cancelled for the day.
Great. So after waiting for 1.5 hours at gate 56, the AC lady told us she had a direct flight for us at either midnight or the next morning. Since AC would get us a room in a nearby hotel, Zimmerman and I opted for the next morning.
So after another couple of hours waiting for baggage and standing in line to get our hotel voucher tickets, we hopped in a shuttle bus and checked in at the hotel. After a late lunch, Zimmerman decided to take a bath and I went for walk (which has brought me to this Internet cafe where I'm typing this entry now).
If all goes well (ha!), I should be back in Montreal by 3pm tomorrow. Hang in there![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sarahcarotte... I'm coming home as soon as I can!
My morale is doing okay overall. I'm trying to take this as a travelling adventure, so I'm making the best of it.
We left our host family this morning at 8am and headed for the airport. We dropped off the rental car, got through security, boarded our plane, and waited.
And waited. And waited. And then.... we waited some more.
Then we all disembarked. Air Canada was very sorry to inform us that the computer system for their Jazz service had crashed (wrongword, wrongword, wrongword) across Canada, so the planes could not get their flightplans from the Control Tower. Therefore, all the Jazz flights had been cancelled for the day.
Great. So after waiting for 1.5 hours at gate 56, the AC lady told us she had a direct flight for us at either midnight or the next morning. Since AC would get us a room in a nearby hotel, Zimmerman and I opted for the next morning.
So after another couple of hours waiting for baggage and standing in line to get our hotel voucher tickets, we hopped in a shuttle bus and checked in at the hotel. After a late lunch, Zimmerman decided to take a bath and I went for walk (which has brought me to this Internet cafe where I'm typing this entry now).
If all goes well (ha!), I should be back in Montreal by 3pm tomorrow. Hang in there
sarahcarotte... I'm coming home as soon as I can!My morale is doing okay overall. I'm trying to take this as a travelling adventure, so I'm making the best of it.
