Well I'm home from Nashville and I'm so glad.
It was the trip from hell back from Nashville. I spent about 7 Hours in the Nasvhille airport waiting for the next plane to LA. Not sure what was going on, but all the planes to New York were cancelled and they weren't allowing air traffic, so most planes were redirected to Chicago, which is where I was connecting through to LA on. The delays were so bad which meant I was going to miss all my connecting flights, including my flight back to Sydney. So United put me with another airline "Frontier" which would get me into Denver and connect to LA, just in time for my flight to Sydney. So everything from then on, ran smoothly. I met some guys on the flight who were from Denver, we chatted our bums off, which made the flight go by extremely fast, time just flew by! I got into LA with almost exactly 1 hour to connect to my flight to Sydney, I was so happy! I couldn't believe the flight actually arrived on time for once. So I pushed through the crowds with my guitar and many handbags, almost running to the next terminal (lucky I'm fit, as it was a long way to the next terminal, LA is huge!) I was surprised no one was in line at the check in counter, I didn't think for one moment that I had missed the flight, well not untill the lady looked at her watch and said, can I help you? I was like yes, I've missed it haven't I? She said, that it had been closed for half an hour, I tried everything to see if they could just push me through. But No go, it was 12pm by this stage, I had no where to go and I just wanted to be home. What the hell I was going to do for 24 hours until the next flight out of LA. Just as well United put me up for the night in a really nice hotel and gave me a food voucher, cause I was ropeable, I could have almost punched someone, well maybe not someone, but something! It was a relief to find out that there were plenty of other people in the same situation!
I had to be checked out of the Hotel by 12 noon the next day, at least I could have a nice shower and get some rest. Although just wait, I'll pause and tell you the lesson that I've learnt from this trip. Never leave your house without packing a spare pair of underwear and socks. Cause although I had a shower, I was getting back into my old smelly clothes, which I had been wearing for 2 days so far. Anyway, the next morning came around really quickly, I felt good, but there was no way I was going to sit in that LA airport for any longer than I needed to. So I checked out of the Hotel and thought I might sit at the bar and watch the olympics or read my book. But you know me, I have the smallest attention span and that became really boring. I checked out the Hotel and found a quiet place where I wrote a song for the next 4 hours. Next thing I knew it, it was almost 6:30pm, my flight left at 10:30pm. so I thought I'd better make moves to get to the airport and check in, have some food and chill out! Not that I needed to, it felt like I had been chilling out for days now!
I boarded the plane and sat next to a really nice girl from Perth, we got a long like a house on fire! Man us VIRGO's You can't shut us up! heheh........ I found out that she had also missed her connecting flight to Sydney and she was on the same flight from Denver as me, what a co-incidence, only she didn't get accommodation for the night. 14 hours flew, we slept most of the way, watched a few movies, read a mag or two, gotta love goss. We were both really worried about our luggage, because I had spent about half an hour prior to the flight, talking with this American girl making sure my bags were on the plane with me. She had no hesitation, but to say, they will be on the carosel when I get into Sydney.
Could anything else go wrong on this extremely painful trip home? Well you guessed it, last bags were called and my luggage was no where to be seen. Infact, I'm still waiting for my luggage! All I can say is next time I'm heading to Nashville or anywhere overseas, Qantas all the Way!
Kelly
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