I just got back from the Core Happiness Meetup in Amsterdam and I had a total blast (which I will write about later). The only bad part of the whole trip was the flight(s) back. I thought it might be fun to write up a blog post about it so I can look back on it later and laugh (not there yet ).

Amsterdam

I was worried about missing my flight so I decided to get there extra early so I got to the airport around 7:00 am for my 11:15am flight. Once I got there I checked the board to see which gate I needed to go to and next to my flight was the word “geannuleerd” which turned out to be the dutch word for cancelled.

I then made my way to the United customer service desk and talked with someone there who told me that my flight was cancelled and I was rebooked on an earlier flight that was going to Dulles at 10:15am. That gave me just enough time to get a souvenir for my little sister and get to the right gate. My new itinerary would take me from Amsterdam to Washington to Chicago to Sioux Falls. It would add three hours on to my trip but what could I do. On the flight I was sitting next to a kid who has also been headed to Chicago too but was rebooked on this flight when it was cancelled who told me that he has taken the Chicago flight many times since attending school in the Netherlands and it has a history of mechanical problems as it was an older plane. On this flight there was a family sitting across the aisle with a little baby that was so well behaved it was scary. The dad said the secret was an iPad + the Baby Einstein App.

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