Thursday, July 19, 2007

murphy's law revisited

sitting here with a throbbing headache and my stomach-full of guilt.. my dearest friends, jiji & danyi have come and gone but the vacation ended on such a bad note that i felt responsible for the failure. (p.s. there were a lot of wonderful moments that i will remember but this is last and most lasting impression for now). *grr* 


9:30am phone call from Jetblue : flight cancelled due to thunderstorms. challenge # 1 was to get the gals to NYC by 7pm
9:30 - 11:30am made sure SQ didn't cancel their international flight, made marcin search for trains, bus, flights out from anywhere to NYC
11:30am decided to drive 7hours (and 7 hours back..) to NYC
12:00pm found out that gas leak at work so my 172 guest couldn't leave property to catch bus back to DC. CALAMITY!!
12:30pm pick judy up so i will have a driving companion (bless her heart!), her apartment didn't have water so we had to go to gas station for her to wash up..
1:30pm drove to RIC to pick up car with GPS, decided to try our luck and ran from counter to counter to ask if ANYONE at all was flyin there...no luck =(
1:35pm caught wind that Delta had a bus chartered for their guests to NYC and decided to try our luck and hop on the bus. (the lady was extremely nice) 
1:40pm very thrilled cos we saved money!! and they will get there in time! so yippee...said bye, exchanged hugs and said short prayers for them..
3:00pm got lost and couldnt find shortpump mall... 
4:00pm finally ate breakfast/lunch & tried to do some shopping but was in perpetual unrest cos of excessive worrying.. (never denied that im a ball of emotional mess especially in stress) 
7:00pm braved evening traffic home to williamsburg
8:20pm reached home and receive call from jiji to call SQ to hold the seat for them
8:20 - 9:00pm girls were near the airport but not there.. flight was to depart at 9:20pm.. 
9:10pm girls were sent to the WRONG airport.. *pek chek* 
9:25pm finally gave up on the JFK flight. 
10:00pm learnt that there is a Newark flight at 11pm. tried to book seats
10:20pm gave up. start looking for hotel.
10:30 - 11:06pm HOTELS ALL BOOKED (what are the odds, seriously!!) 
11:10pm Girls found home in another dancer's place.. 

so frustrating. that i lay in bed and couldn't find any words or emotions befitting the current state of my mind. i think i just need today to pass...

4 comments:

  1. *HUGS* I'm sure they dont blame u. You did try all you could to get them there in time! *HUGS*

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  2. still it feels bad that they left on such a bad note!

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  3. i know! super unlucky right??? and i had to talk to my other dance friend and he told me maybe i "sway-ed" them!! (thanks junks..)

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