Aruba, addendum
Soooo Aruba is finished, here's the rest of the lot:
Thursday, went on a snorkel cruise, saw lots of awesome fish, saw an awesome wreck, snubaed and saw more fish. It started pouring so everyone was pretty wet and, unfortunately, cold. Basically lounged the rest of the day until dinner, when I discovered I was very, very dizzy after the appetizer. Thought at first it was an allergic or poison reaction, but it seems now like it was a virus or something longer term. Spent that night going to the doctor on call for the island, who shrugged it off and gave me a shot for anti-nausea. Slept.
Friday, spent all day drinking gatorade and eating digestive cookies. Watching TV. Mom went to the beach. Sick.
Saturday, ditto friday until we left for home. Travel was hell at best. There were 7 lines at the aruba airport: 1.) Check-in, with two people checking in for our flight and another around the same time (1 hour), 2.) Passport and ticket check (5 minutes) 3.) Passport and ticket check not 10 feet away from the previous step (10 minutes) 4.) Aruba security/metal detector (30 minutes) 5.) Immigration (35 minutes), 6.) Baggage loading line (5 minutes) 7.) American security/metal detector (20 minutes).
So yeah, nearly 3 hours of waiting in line, followed an hour of sitting on the ground because the air was too full of planes, and another 30 minutes of weather delay. We'd left at 1:15 PM aruba time, we got in at 9:45 EST, so that's 9 hours with the one hour time difference. This was followed by finding out our 9:25 connecting flight was delayed till 10:15, running to the gate, then having the flight canceled. We were stuck in Atlanta for the night, stood in line for another 30 minutes getting a room, another 20 minutes waiting for the shuttle, and another 20 minutes checking in. Then slept for 5 hours, another 30 minutes checking in, another 30 minutes going through atlanta security, and finally checking in at the gate. Flight delayed about 20 minutes just for kicks, then we finally flew back.
Goooood times. It's worth noting our flight out was also heavily delayed, and went spent the night in Atlanta for it, too.
Delta just loses points all over the place for this lot. I'm still sick with major episodes of vertigo; I'm hoping it 's just a virus. If anyone else has had vertigo for an extended period of time, please let me know cause I'm kinda scared on account of not knowing exactly what this is.
Thursday, went on a snorkel cruise, saw lots of awesome fish, saw an awesome wreck, snubaed and saw more fish. It started pouring so everyone was pretty wet and, unfortunately, cold. Basically lounged the rest of the day until dinner, when I discovered I was very, very dizzy after the appetizer. Thought at first it was an allergic or poison reaction, but it seems now like it was a virus or something longer term. Spent that night going to the doctor on call for the island, who shrugged it off and gave me a shot for anti-nausea. Slept.
Friday, spent all day drinking gatorade and eating digestive cookies. Watching TV. Mom went to the beach. Sick.
Saturday, ditto friday until we left for home. Travel was hell at best. There were 7 lines at the aruba airport: 1.) Check-in, with two people checking in for our flight and another around the same time (1 hour), 2.) Passport and ticket check (5 minutes) 3.) Passport and ticket check not 10 feet away from the previous step (10 minutes) 4.) Aruba security/metal detector (30 minutes) 5.) Immigration (35 minutes), 6.) Baggage loading line (5 minutes) 7.) American security/metal detector (20 minutes).
So yeah, nearly 3 hours of waiting in line, followed an hour of sitting on the ground because the air was too full of planes, and another 30 minutes of weather delay. We'd left at 1:15 PM aruba time, we got in at 9:45 EST, so that's 9 hours with the one hour time difference. This was followed by finding out our 9:25 connecting flight was delayed till 10:15, running to the gate, then having the flight canceled. We were stuck in Atlanta for the night, stood in line for another 30 minutes getting a room, another 20 minutes waiting for the shuttle, and another 20 minutes checking in. Then slept for 5 hours, another 30 minutes checking in, another 30 minutes going through atlanta security, and finally checking in at the gate. Flight delayed about 20 minutes just for kicks, then we finally flew back.
Goooood times. It's worth noting our flight out was also heavily delayed, and went spent the night in Atlanta for it, too.
Delta just loses points all over the place for this lot. I'm still sick with major episodes of vertigo; I'm hoping it 's just a virus. If anyone else has had vertigo for an extended period of time, please let me know cause I'm kinda scared on account of not knowing exactly what this is.