Going home finally! What?

Note: always keep spare clothes in your carry on…we didn’t and we spent three days in the same clothes, apparently the airlines don’t like to retrieve bags on cancelled flights and I didn’t think it was going to be three long days in the same pair of pants, shirt, socks…well you get the picture.  We were notified the night before that we had an 8:30am pickup for the airport and that our flight would be leaving about noon.   We enjoyed a delicious breakfast, packed and headed to the airport.  We went to the ticket agents and they inform us that our boarding passes and seats are still valid and that all we have to do is show up for the flight….flight gets delayed till 2:00pm then 3:00pm then finally we hear boarding call at nearly 4:00pm – we head to the gate give the gate keepers our tickets…problem!  The airlines bumped us to the 7:30pm flight!  Those that know me, what happens next will be shocking….I claim temporary insanity.  I lost it; I started yelling at the gate agents (who started being rude first..which put me over the edge) to the point security decided to come watch the event unfold.  The ticket agent couldn’t explain why or what happened but the best they could offer me is a ten-euro meal voucher for each of us….have you been in an airport that’s enough for a slice of toast!  I can’t really control my anger and frustration at that point and I storm off to keep myself from going to jail.  I needed every bit of that extra four hours to calm back down.  Finally we get on the plane, after another fifty-minute delay land in Kiev after midnight and after our normally three hour drive extended due to snow conditions turns into four and half hours we finally make it home.  Only I have to get up in a few hours to go into work; whoever said, “If you’re not exhausted from your vacation, you didn’t really have a vacation”…..I’d like to punch that dude.