Tuesday July 20, 2010
Today is the day we fly home! Bye Bye Canada!
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A story to tell....
So we fly home today and went to the airport at 1 in the afternoon. Our flight home isn't direct flight. We will be stopping in Portland and transfer... so here are the things that go wrong. Starting from Canada to Portland.
Sitting in the plane in Canada. We don't take off because not everyone is on board. Then this lady comes on. Okay now we are taxing out of the airport, ready to take off when... the lady yells out "I want to get off". Plane stops and the lady gets off. I think she felt sick or whatever. I know people were pretty ticked off. She was the last one off and we were delayed for 1/2 hour because she wanted to get off.
Now landing in Portland... our next flight to Honolulu already started boarding and we were still getting off the plane from Vancouver (which was and hour flight by the way). We get off the plane and run into the terminal finding the gate for our next flight.
Scary part, we are taxing out of the terminal again when all of a sudden the plane goes back. HUH?
Apparently when the plane started up there was this really strong diesel smell (even I smelt it) and some people up front saw ashes flying into the cabin. Ooo. Then we all had to get off the plane so they could find our the problem. The flight was delayed for two hours. We were supposed to take off at 4: 45 but we ended up boarding around 6. What happened? I think they said the fan was broken or something, I was too tired and groggy. Ended up arriving in Honolulu at 12:30 a.m. We were supposed to be home by 8: 45 or something...
How scary. At least I am home safely now.