A: Apparently more than 3.
Going to print out my boarding pass from good old Orbitz.com on Friday morning, it wouldn't let me. It said my flight didn't exist. Confused, I called Continental Airlines and spoke with a man who probably thinks I am an idiot because apparently I had booked my flight for Thursday night . . . not Friday--and therefore had missed it.
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$400 and a breakdown later I got the last seat available on the Friday night flight from Portland to Houston, and then Houston to Mexico (the one I thought I had originally booked). You see the same Continental Flights run every night with the same flight numbers at 12:30am. Kind of confusing! And for this program we need to be in Mexico City by Saturday so we can get to Queretaro by Sunday.
I immediately called the other two students with whom I had specifically bought my tickets with so we could be together to see if they had booked the correct flight. They had not. One had missed her flight with me the previous night, and the other had somehow mistakenly booked a flight for Saturday night. . . .wth, good job Mike. Since I grabbed the last flight out Friday, Amanda rescheduled hers to fly with Mike on Saturday night--cutting it extremely close to arriving to Queretaro on time.
After a crazy/hectic day full of preparing, getting everything ready, more packing, moving, helping friends move, and even more packing, Amanda and I headed for Salem where we had dinner with her and her family at a fantastic pizza place, and then her dad took me to the airport where I met up with about eight other obviously more intelligent students who had booked the right flight the first time.
In retrospect this is quite funny (though not $400 funny), and I feel like I would do something like this because how else would I start my summer in Mexico!
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3 comments:
oh, little! i am so sorry that happened, but at least it makes for a GREAT story (and also an expensive one)! graduation was great, but not as good as it could have been with you here! can't wait to hear about all the rest of your adventures--i know you'll have an amazing time!
love, your BIG
Hi honey. It will be ok. So you are human. All this time I thought you were Supergirl. And this just goes to show that you are my daughter. At least you handled it with minimal trauma. Anyway I replaced the $400.00 in your account. Now relax, have fun, learn lots, be safe and most of all remember I love you. Love Mom
Perfect way to start a mexico trip!
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