Yesterday I checked into my flight to Boston at about 3:30pm. Before I went to bed that night I checked my flight status just because I one of those feelings. Sure enough my flight was canceled due to a pending snow storm the following day.
My old boss used to say "Chance favors the prepared." Boy was I prepared to go on this trip! I had directions to the cheap parking lot printed, directions from the cheap parking lot to over flow lot if that was full. Directions to the airport from home just in case I was running late and couldn't wait for the shuttle, and directions from each of those locations home. I had the house stocked full of food for my hubby. All his favorite snacks & sodas, to home made shrimp dip, chili, chicken soup, pizza, muffins and brownies. I was packed, had the iPod, Kindle and DVD player charged (you see why I am broke?!) and my girly netflix movies ready to watch.
I called the airline when I saw my flight was canceled (thanks for letting me know JetBlue grrr...) and they had booked my on the next days flight. No good! I was only going for 3.5 days and now one day was gone. So they issued a credit for my next ticket. I wasn't mad, just disappointed. My mantra is everything happens for a reason and I firmly believe that. The worst part was delivering the bad news to my mom.
Today I went online to rebook the trip, and not one flight no matter how I tried, was as cheap as my original one. So I had pay $40 to rebook the trip. This was NOT in our budget of course... but luckily we had our emergency budget meeting and penciled it in.
What did I learn from all this? Even if you prepare as much as possible Murphy might still creep in and try to ruin things. Also, never book a trip in January to a location that gets a lot of snow.
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