Oops - Right Royal F#*#( Up

Okay so this is where I stuff up slightly, all along I have been convinced that our flight to Toronto is at 6.30pm, umm no it isn’t it is at 1.40pm, so at 11.15am when Andrew and I are checking he said to me that his worldmate on his Blackberry is telling him that there were no delays and it was at 1.40pm, oh dear panic set in right about now along with the stomach churning. I have what would you say royally F##(* Up here. (I had gotten the flight mixed up with our next one to the UK). So we call the Valet for our hire car to be bought around, madly pack up couple of things, call for concierge to pick up bags, I run down to reception with Bella to pay bill. Car is bought around Bella is thrown in, along with small luggage, Andrew took for ever to come down with the big bags as no Concierge to bring them down, so he makes 3 trips and we load up the car and drive at speed to the airport.

Had a good quick trip missed a big accident that happened in front of us, roll up at Avis, load our bags onto the bus and head to AA check in, can’t check in curbside as our bags are too big, ok this has to do with round the world ticket so head inside to 1^st class check in, get through no problems. We race through the airport, running to Gate D50 which is right at the end only to get there and be told that our flight had changed gates, since checking in mind you, so we run right back to where we started from and head to Gate E2, we get there and find out our flight was delayed, ok so that was cool but we were hot and sweaty after our running, so sat down and had a cool drink and let the heart rate drop a bit.

We get on the plane and think thank god we made it, only to be delayed for 40 minutes as someones baggage was there and they weren’t, well they turn up and we wait a bit more before we finally take off.

Oh add to the day that we were waiting 1.5 hours at the airport for one of our bags, which didn’t turn up as it was still in Miami, great!!! Anyway they organized to send it out to us the following morning, but it really just topped off a really bad day.

My thoughts on Miami in general is that it is overrated, at least we can say we have been there, but its not really somewhere we would go back to. Though we did enjoy what we did while we were there, just found the people really rude, the hotel was a dud.

Boy it was great to get to Toronto, Simon met us at the airport and we had a great time chatting all the way to their home. Sue met us at the door and we had a tour of the house and some dinner, followed for us that could with a session of serious drinking, it was a great first night.