OMG!!!!!!!!!!

Ok followers this is a story only people of the airline world would believe.  It starts out with a hurricane somewhere to the east.  How could that possible effect our plans to travel to London 2 days from now.  Well as any airline employee can tell you or someone in politics, everything has a ripple effect to everything else in this world. So as hurricane Irene runs it's course hitting ALL of the east coast as it dots along. Everyone there starts to run west....anywhere to get away from her wrath.  And if they are going to Europe then maybe they must rebook their reservations.  And maybe the next best connector to Europe is good ol DFW.  And that my friends is just what happened.  So here I am at work Friday morning take a look at our flights the next day and WHATTTT....our lovely flight is now oversold......aaaaahhhh so is the next day....aaaaahhh so is the next day. OMG!!!!! I look at every place in Europe

....Paris, Frankfurt, even Madrid. We are sunk. But then a ray of hope. I look at this evenings flight and wow. There are seats, not a lot but a ray of hope. But I have to work in the morning. So I kick it into overdrive and start calling everyone I know to get off Saturday. After a couple of hours of hard calling I get the first piece of good luck and get the day off. Call Don, get him on red alert. And the race begins. We had started packing so that was great but still....................... so much to do. All the while looking at our flight seeing what had happened to all those other flights was slowly happening to ours. It filling up! Now it is oversold. But the ray of hope is still there. Weather! As any airline person will tell you, weather can do one of two things. May the possible impossible or make the impossible possible. This story is to long already but after broken seats and delayed departures we didn't get out on the flight I thought we would get out on but we did get out on the very last flight of the night and the most unbelievable part of it all was in the final moments, we actually got business class and even together. Now that is amazing!

So now we are here in London in our unbelievably over priced hotel. Showered and scrubbed and soon to get our over priced dinner, sleep the sleep of the dead in our over priced bed. Tomorrow they say our Britsh Airway's flight looks pretty good. We should get on. Stay tuned for the next adventure to Pisa tomorrow I hope. Ciao per ora..A domani. (bye for now...till tomorrow)