Well that was fun

Today I was going to add another country to the list of places I've been this year...but it was not to be. Reason #21 why flying is not as fun as it used to be.

My cab arrived this morning at 5:45 to pick me up so I could be to the airport 2 hours early for my 8:30 am flight to Geneva. The flight ended up being delayed over two hours. That meant that I would completely miss the meeting I was going there for. I called the client and she preferred I just stay here and present over the phone, rather than missing the meeting completely. So I asked the gate attendant if it was possible to not fly afterall. He said they could unload my bag and send it to baggage claim area 1.

One and half hours later my bag still hadn't arrived. I asked the attendant about it and she said the flight had just recently taken off and my bag wouldn't have been sent until the flight took off. (Does that make sense to you?) Anyway, I waited awhile longer and it still didn't show up. At this point I wasn't going to make it home to even call for the meeting over the phone. My bag finally showed up at 12:10, about 3 hours after I told them I didn't want to go. I ended up having to call for the meeting from my cell phone in a restaurant at the airport.

I had really wanted to go to Geneva. A co-worker from our other office just moved there and we were going to hang out. I will probably get there soon enough since there are a lot of meetings there. For now, I guess the upside is I get to go to my small group tonight.