Minor Inconveniences... - Carolina Vacation Part 5
It's always nice when you can look back on a trip and realize how smoothly everything went. We had a few bumps that could have turned into a bigger deal, but fortunately all was well. Just some minor inconveniences...
Waiting an extra hour and a half for our flight to leave SLC. Delta called us to notify us about the delay...when we were halfway to the airport.
Our airplane from SLC was pretty rickety and due to the turbulence throughout our ENTIRE flight (because of the tornadoes brewing in the midwest), it sounded like it was going to fall apart. Dillon got whacked in the head by the tray table in front of him when it busted off it's bolt. The flight attendant fixed it like this...
Our first room was advertised as "sleeps 7." Let's just say their target market must have been dwarfs. The two beds and the sofa bed were doubles (not queens) and bed number 7?...These two mini cushions on the couch that Ian slept on.
I reserved a rental car nearly 4 months before our trip...at least that's what I thought. Turns out I never clicked "submit." Instead of a van with lots of leg room and luggage room, we ended up squished into this luxury beast. At least they had something with enough seats. We were just grateful we had a car.
We had the weirdest thing happen on our trip. Two nights in a row, at two different hotels, our hotel fire alarms went off and the entire hotel evacuated. Fire trucks came and big scary firemen carrying axes went inside to check it out. The first time, it was at 1 am and even after they let us back in the building (after waiting outside in our pjs for a half hour), the alarms continued to go on and off for another 2 hours. No harm done, but the breakfast area the next morning was filled with zombies. The funniest part was that we were in the middle of telling our friends (that were visiting us for dinner) about the fire alarms going off the previous night when the fire alarms went off that night (a different hotel in a different city). We were afraid to tell anyone about it from then on, just in case we were jinxed and it caused problems at the airport, too.
Waiting an extra hour and a half for our flight to leave SLC. Delta called us to notify us about the delay...when we were halfway to the airport.
Our airplane from SLC was pretty rickety and due to the turbulence throughout our ENTIRE flight (because of the tornadoes brewing in the midwest), it sounded like it was going to fall apart. Dillon got whacked in the head by the tray table in front of him when it busted off it's bolt. The flight attendant fixed it like this...
Our first room was advertised as "sleeps 7." Let's just say their target market must have been dwarfs. The two beds and the sofa bed were doubles (not queens) and bed number 7?...These two mini cushions on the couch that Ian slept on.
I reserved a rental car nearly 4 months before our trip...at least that's what I thought. Turns out I never clicked "submit." Instead of a van with lots of leg room and luggage room, we ended up squished into this luxury beast. At least they had something with enough seats. We were just grateful we had a car.
We had the weirdest thing happen on our trip. Two nights in a row, at two different hotels, our hotel fire alarms went off and the entire hotel evacuated. Fire trucks came and big scary firemen carrying axes went inside to check it out. The first time, it was at 1 am and even after they let us back in the building (after waiting outside in our pjs for a half hour), the alarms continued to go on and off for another 2 hours. No harm done, but the breakfast area the next morning was filled with zombies. The funniest part was that we were in the middle of telling our friends (that were visiting us for dinner) about the fire alarms going off the previous night when the fire alarms went off that night (a different hotel in a different city). We were afraid to tell anyone about it from then on, just in case we were jinxed and it caused problems at the airport, too.
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| Awaken out of a deep sleep at 1am...waiting for the alarms to go off |
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| Hotel evacuation number 2...in the rain this time, but at least it was only 7:30pm |
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