Mitzi's Big Adventure

Well, this isn't quite as planned so far and I've not even reached my destination. And at this point it doesn't look like I will! Travel in winter should be left to the young adventurous ones!! From now on I will be staying home in winter myself! Flying to DC, no problem. Leaving DC, the problems began. The flight was almost 3 hours late leaving, first we waited to get deiced then waited for other connecting flights, then waited for more cargo, then more passengers making connections and then, what do you know, we had to wait forever to getinto a deicing station on the runway! So almost 3 hours late, 6 hours after I had arrived at the airport we took off.

Now of course that meant that no one would make connections. I was in a cart and was rushed through passport control and security again and made it to the gate as it was time to check in for the Budapest flight. Waited for a half hour, no rep showed up and suddenly the screen went blank and some handsome young German man came up to me and said the flight was cnacelled he had gotten a text. He showed it to me and it was in English and yes indeed, the flight was cancelled. Luckily I can still visit the priority lounges and waited in line for almost an hour with other frustrated travelers. I guess I\m lucky. I am booked on a flight out in nine hours and if it doesn't go then I have a hotel room, but it is 1/2 hour away at least and the airlines, Lufthansa gave me a pass for a taxi since I am so scared alone. Not sure I want to do that on the trecherous roads here either. I have a flight booked out in the morning too so if this one doesn't go out at 9PM I go to the hotel and ocme back in the morning. Too much stress for me!

So I will try to sleep now that I finally got a bit to eat. I must say the German potato salad is incredibly delicious! Why does the bright spot have to be food? I might just try the beer too! And hopefully I can sleep in the chair. The lounge is packed!

Time for this lady to stay home and write about the last few years! For now, I'm just hoping for sleep!