Another Only In Alaska

Well after a crazy day of three and a half hours of church... yes 11:00 a.m. to 2:30ish p.m. i was in church and lets just leave it at that for now.  So... after i went to church Lily and i went out to Taco King to help satisfy her craving for Mexican food.  And then we went to Scott's house where she watched 10,000 B.C. which she said was pretty good and i finished packing.

So, five O'clock came and i went off to the airport with Lily.  Tony was supposed to take me but he ended up having to take a group sightseeing down in Portage.  Also, i was supposed to see Irene and Larry before i left but church kinda stopped that from happening.  All that to say I got to the airport and met Jared who kindly stood in line for a little bit until he had to leave off for some other things.  So Lily stayed with me to make sure i got on the plane... lucky she did because once we got to the check in desk part we found out that my flight may be canceled.

Supposedly there has been some volcanic activity from the Kasatochi Volcano, and the plane coming into Anchorage that I was supposed to be flying on had gone through a cloud of ash and had gotten in the engine and caused some minor problems.  Well it turns out those minor problems were enough to cancel my flight.  So after chatting with some people and line and showing much patience that the Delta employees loved, I got booked on another flight... conveniently located at the other terminal which Lily drove me to.  So as I got out of the truck, checked in... went through security... got to my gate, i began to wait.  Oh and let me mention that the flight that i got switched to had an 11 hour lay over in Seattle Washington from 1 in the morning to 12 in the afternoon.

Well over the intercom comes a lovely voice saying that my flight to Seattle was canceled and that to make reservations for another flight i would have to go to the Alaska Airlines help desk. All this happened right after i helped some guys from Macedonia (Europe) by letting them first use my computer and then my phone to contact a friend in Chicago... They were going there to work.  So we all rush over to this one place to make reservations and find out after standing in line for about 30 minutes that they couldn't help us and we would have to change our tickets via phone.  So i give Scott a call and eventually get picked up by Connie his wife.

So all this to say i have an extra two days in Alaska.  All because of something that can only happen here pretty much.  A volcano erupting and causing almost all flights to be canceled because of the cloud of ash, which sounds pretty funny when heard over the intercom.  Yes it is childish... but pretty funny. :)