Take 1

Well I am unexpectedly back in Sacramento for the day (perks: watching England play Italy in Eurocup and hanging with Scout and Soph). Yesterday my parents and I headed to SF for my midnight departure. We enjoyed a great dinner in the city and arrived at San Francisco International 3 hours before my flight. It was delayed 50 minutes but they said I would still make the connecting flights in JFK. All seemed good so after I went through security, my parents left to drive back to Sac. 


At midnight I was sitting at Gate 12 trying to decide the first book I would read (I downloaded enough for the next 3 years on my Kindle). Naturally I became more interested in people watching and I started hearing rumors that our flight was cancelled. I checked the board and it still said 12:50 so I assumed it was fine. A few minutes later there were a few people in line at the gate so I went over and asked the woman who worked for jetBlue if the flight was cancelled. She said yes!! I asked when they were planning on making an announcement (politely of course..). I immediately called the parentals who turned the car around and came back. They didn't announce the cancellation for 10 more minutes (over 30 minutes from when our flight should have originally departed).


In order to prevent this first post from being as long as this past night I will skip to the end. We arrived home from SF at 4:15 am. My dearest mother stayed on the phone with jetBlue trying to fix my flights for 6 hours!!! (I had taken sleeping pills in the airport when I thought I was flying... and let's be honest my mother has a way of getting what she needs). Unfortunately jetBlue did not handle the situation very well from the beginning and it was even more unfortunate for the plans of some others on my flight. 


I eventually got ahold of Major and Kathy in Zimbabwe to let them know that I won't be arriving for a day later. Any nerves that I was beginning to have in SF have gone away. I just want to arrive in Zimbabwe now, I am so excited!!


Take 2 happens tonight from Sacramento, actually looking forward to my long flights now because it means I'm on my way!!