Japan Part One

This is a picture of what we should look like right now...unfortunately, this was taken in January on our way to the Cook Islands. We got up early this morning, hopped on the MAX and arrived at the airport. Our airline was American Airlines...but when we got there they said that our flight to L.A. was on Alaska. They partner with them. At the Alaska desk they said that our 8:10am flight "no longer exists". We were supposed to be on the 6:55am flight...but our travel agency never told us. There were no other flights to L.A. that would get us on our Japan connection. Awesome.

Our travel agency responded with such helpful statements as "did you check in two hours early?" and "did you confirm your flight the night before?" Um....really? Who does that? If you do, don't rub it in. We will from now on (well...I will confirm the flight, only because my travel agency appears to be unable to complete this task...and I will get to the airport 1 1/2 hours early). The interesting thing is that in the past five months we have received notifications for every little insignificant detail "your flight has changed from 8:01am to 8:02am", but when the flight no longer exists they don't catch it.

The good news is that we try again tomorrow. In a year of travels, we will undoubtedly encounter every travel snafu known to man. Check off "flight no longer exists..." ;) The blog is back!
P.S. I added more pictures to the Cook Islands blog..internet was sooo slow there we couldn't put many up.