Travel

So here is an outline of our travel:

1. Saturday 12/21/09 approx. 5:00pm we find out that our flight the next day was cancelled already due to weather.... Continental accomodates us by getting seats for us on the 7:30am flight to Chicago.
2. We have to get a car service to take us to the airport 'cause (pronounced "cawse" in Jersey) we need to leave by 4:00am in order to make the flight.
3. Upon getting out of the van I noticed Maggies carry-on bag leaking white droplets of what can only be Phinneus' $9.50 per bottle formula.... 3 of the 5 bottles leaked (i didn't screw on the tops tight, come on I did it at like 3 in the mornin!) so we had to throw out the bag...
4. 7:15, still on line.... I come to realize that we most likely aren't getting on this flight. Every single check-in agent at the counter had a person yelling at them..... see Continental decided to make their customers pay for each bag they put on the plane.... so there is a money transaction that needs to take place & it really slows down everything.... & this one guy lost his sh*t & started demanding that somebody get fired... It was like the domino effect... He started the reaction.... It became like the floor of the NYSE, everybody was yelling, kids were crying.... it was unbelievable.... Since I thaught we weren't making the plane, I took it cool & watched the madness...
5. 7:20, somehow by an act of God & Baby Jesus we got checked in & through security. See the security was quick since nobody could get through the check-in line to get to security!
6. 7:22, Maggie realizes she lost her ticket..... I laugh & prepair to get in the "flight re-assignment" line..... but thank God, Baby Jesus & St. Anthony a nice guy noticed our situation & directed us toward a ticket he saw on the ground. Thankfully it was Maggies!
7. 7:25, we hear the "last call" for our flight, which was of course at gate 99.... yup the farthest one.... but once again we avoid disaster & just make it on the plane!
8. We get situated, the plane leaves the gate & starts taxi-ing down the runway. Nothing can happen now right?? Wrong!!! Phinneus decides to take a massive stinky dump as we take off.... and of course the flight was bumpy so we couldn't get out of the seat to change him... We wrapped him in a blanket to keep the smell down...
9. We get off the plane & Maggie goes to change the baby in the Ladies room... & of course Phinneus pees all over himself, his clothes, everything.....
10. As we approach the luggage carousel we hear "passenger John Paul from Newark please report to the luggage service desk".... yup they lost 2 outta 4 pieces of our luggage... & of course they HAD to lose the baby's car seat....., monitor...... & all his clothes..... So we borrowed a carseat from the airport & headed to Gigi & Papa Ken's house.
11. Late that evening they drop off the carseat, we give them back the borrowed one & they tell me that the suitcase is still "missing" and will probably show up "soon"....
12. After 3 days of waiting, checking online & calling I ask what the policy is for re-embursing us for all the stuff we had to buy the baby & they have the coglione to inform me that because he sat on our lap & wasn't a ticketed passenger thay will not be responsable for any of his items....... I had an anurism...
13. We go to Casey Gibson's house & Gigi leaves us the car so we can come home when we want, but took the keys so we were stuck there..... & of course when I opened the door the alarm went off........... Gordy had to come give us a ride, at like 10:00pm..... After Michele called the cops to come over & help us out..... We called off the heat & dealt with it ourselves...
14. I fell down the steps carrying an "excersauser" & blew my knee out just before we left Gigi's fpr the airport..... ouch!
15. Yesterday we get a call from Continental that they found our bag (of course we're home now)....... It had been "run over by something" the woman told me.... a bus, plane, who the heck knows... But everything was there & they gave us a new piece of luggage to replace it.....

This was a very interesting trip, I think I may write a memmoir about it.... Sh*t, I think it'd be a best friggin seller!!!!!!

We truly had a wonderful trip aside from the physical travelling described above..... Thanks so much to awlla yous that helped us out!

Peace!!!!!