San Diego Day 4

Our plane was supposed to leave at 1:05, so we left Jim and Amy's at about 10:45 and got to the car rental place by about 11:20. We still had a whole hour and forty-five minutes, so we definitely weren't worried. We should have been.

First it was a missing car rental shuttle, so it took us 30 minutes just to get picked up and taken to the airport. Then Charlie's listing didn't come up on the kiosk so I had to go get in line for some help. Next, it took the counter employee 45 minutes to get through the two people in front of me! And then when it was my turn, she called someone from the baggage check line instead! So I'm absolutely fuming, but what can I do?!? By this point, if I didn't get checked in within about 2 minutes, we couldn't get on the flight no matter how fast we made it through security because of federal regulations. The person with the bags left and I got ready to push my way to the front when the fire emergency lights started going off and a loud voice came over the speakers telling us all to exit the building. The employees all grabbed their purses and left without saying a word to any of us waiting in line. Our flight left while were were standing there wondering what to do.

Everything eventually settled down and we tried to get on the next flight. We met these little birds who live in the San Diego airport . . .


And we waited and waited and waited . . .

And didn't get on the flight because it was full. So my parents picked us up and took us back to Jim and Amy's where we watched Baby Einstein and went swimming again.

And we had a blast.

When you're flying on non-rev benefits you totally expect for flights to fill up and things to go wrong, but this was beyond ridiculus. We ended up taking a early morning flight out of Orange County instead the next day. Since this happened, I've heard more stories about the San Diego airport. If your travels take you to California, I suggest you fly into Orange County . . . or L.A. . . . or San Francisco . . . ;)