Stress on Vacation Sucks

Stress sucks, and stress on vacation doubles the suck. Its like hoover, but with more ..... well, suck. Matty and I found out the day before we have to leave Corn island that the flights were all cancelled that day because of the wind. The winds aren't supposed to let up for a few days, but the problem is, we have to fly tomorrow, or we'll miss or flight to Chile. So we think positive thoughts and hope the wind dies down. It doesn't. It gets worse.

So in the morning we go the the airport nice and early and sk, are you flying today. The man responds with a very relieving hand motion back and forth as to say.. mehh, that is toatlly "up in the air", pardon the pun. Actually, don't pardon the pun, since I specifically used that to be punny.

So we wait, the plane doesn't show up, so we wait more. At this pioint, I'm getting pretty friggin antsy. Antsy like I get when i'm in a car too long and not driving, and I've just had like 5 coffees. If you've ever ridden in a car with me for any length of time, when I haven't had cofee, you'll know how ansy that it.

Its an hour after the flights supposed to have arrived, and it still hasn't. They start moving things inside and this and that, furthering the stress, no ones telling us anyhting, and even the people that speak spanish don't know what the hells going on. There are still people walking across the runway and riding their bikes up and down it. This is common practice when planes aren't landing or taking off, but thats a whole different story.

So, we sit, and wait, and it feels like forever, every truck going by somehow sounds like an airplane and furthers our hopes, dashing them everytime it fades into the distance down the road. But then....

The flights not going and we are going to miss our plane to chile so we're fucked. I don't know what we're going to do yet honestly, and we can't bring ourselves to talk about it yet. You think you've seen grumpy matty... well try seeing Matty after missing an international flight you can't rebook grumpy.















Ha! That last part was totally a lie. I hope some of you don't read this far and spread rumours like wildfire. Our plan did leave, though it wasn't what I'd call a pleasant flight, We got where we needed to be and we aren't going to miss the next flight. Sweet. Its my birthday, so we might get druhk this afternoon and hopefully sleep it off before flying tomorrow.

If there's been any good stories, fill us in.