After spending the entire afternoon at the Burlington airport waiting for the thunderstorms to clear, the powers-that-be finally decided to give up on delaying my connecting flight to JFK and just cancel it all together. They gave me a brand new ticket for a flight leaving tomorrow morning. Oh, and the BEST part? I now have a SIX HOUR layover in New York.
I honestly cannot remember the last time I flew without a hitch. Maybe I never have. The airline gods don't smile on me, but based on the stories I heard from fellow fliers today, it seems they don't smile on anybody. The morning flight to JFK was also canceled today, due to mechanical problems; you can imagine how inflamed the folks were who've been trying to get out of Vermont since 7:00 am and now have to wait another night. Let's just cross our fingers that the sky stays clear long enough for me to get in the air.
A million thanks to Tina for the intrepid shuttling today in the face of thunder and lightning, wind and rain.
It's odd being here. I had myself prepared myself psychologically to be sleeping on a plane tonight (not that I ever really sleep on planes) and dealing with time zones and trains and languages-other-than-English tomorrow. But instead I'm here, making dinner and tea as usual, playing with Puppy (who was so excited to see me, little does he know...), and being more aimless and lazy than ever, because I'm in airline limbo!
On the bright side, I did find this really cool lobster-shaped magnet on the sidewalk outside the airport. Poor dear, he's missing one of his antennae.
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