John's mom and dad outside the Temple.
Bella outside the San Diego Temple.
We saw the pandas and they were so close and active. It was so cool. This is the two and a half year old female. The mom and another new baby were on the other side of the exhibit.
John and I are at his parent's house in southern California for a few days. We came for his cousin, Lisa's wedding. She got married in San Diego on Saturday. It was a beautiful wedding and she was a beautiful bride.
On Friday, we went to the San Diego Zoo. It was really fun. Bella loved all the animals and picked out a tiger and a panda stuffed animal to bring home.
And although the weekend ended up being wonderful...the start was not. Let me tell you a tale of airport hell.....
We were suppose to leave for Ontario at 3:00 pm on Thursday afternoon. John had been in Texas and was meeting us at the gate and traveling with us to California. When I arrived at the airport, our plane was an hour late, not so bad, but by the time we got to our gate it was 2 hours late. Then....three.....then....four hours late! Finally, they ended up canceling our flight and began booking people into other Southern California cities. We decided we would go straight to San Diego, since it was already late and we would be there the next day anyways. We pricelined a hotel and was assured that our luggage would meet us in San Diego.
Well, we got to San Diego, finally, but our luggage was not there. They said it some how was sent to LA....annoying, yes, but they assured us that they would bring it to us at the hotel in the morning. However, by this time we had been in airports for over 8 hours and I was out of diapers, had no clothes or car seats. John had to take and tax at 10:00pm to find diapers.
The next morning we called to see when our luggage would arrive so we could got to the zoo....well.....they sent the luggage back to SALT LAKE! Then to ORANGE COUNTY. None of which was any where close to where we were! I had to call John's mom and ask her to stop and buy us clothes on her way down, we could have worn what we had from the day before but....Bella peed through hers, Chase spit up all over his, and I was wearing heels....not exactly friendly for the zoo.
Well, when we got back from the zoo, the luggage was finally there, but it was the most ridiculous experience I have ever had in relationship to traveling. And the only thing we got for our 24 + hours of inconvience was $21.00 in food vouchers to the Salt Lake Airport....score....
5 comments:
Twenty one bucks, huh? So that got you a happy meal and a cinnabon? Sorry that was so rough. I hope you have fun.
Sorry about the airport drama... Looks like you are having fun though! Bella's such a cutie!
That is BRUTAL. So pretty much I can't complain ever again about traveling!
I cant imagine enduring that with 2 kids. Ive had serious luggage drama, and spent a night huddled with 6 strangers under a flannel sheet in seattle...but I didnt have to be at a wedding or taking care of a newborn and toddler at the same time! You win a gold medal for that one!
We miss san diego, hope you guys had fun despite the airport drama! Those pictures of Chase and bella are PRICELESS! Cant wait to see you all soon!
Delta? We had a very similar experience just last week, our flight was supposed to leave at 6:10 PM on Wednesday and we didn't get out of Salt Lake until 3:45 am, got into Portland at sans luggage and car seats which wasn't delivered until 4pm the next day. And we got nothing but a plane full of screaming children out of the deal because of course there were like 20 of them on the flight. We honestly could have driven in the same amount of time, which crossed our mind but Delta would not refund our tickets.
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