This doesn't really have much to do with an LDR but it does relate to my surprise visit to my hubby in LA (CA). I mentioned it in the countdown thread i was supposed to arrive in LAX on friday 8th feb and take the shuttle buss and train to our apartment and well surprise him. This did not happen in the end : (
My united airlines flight from LHR to LAX had to make an emergency landing in Ireland! The cockpit started smoking and something had caught on fire while we were making our cross over the Atlantic. The pilot very calmly said over the PA system "yeah cockpit is smoking so you may notice that we've just made a U turn to Shannon, Ireland. Oh and do not worry about the fuel that is being ejected, we are not comfortable making an emergency landing with this much fuel" - so yeah ball of fire if we landed bad >.< Shannon isnt an international airport (well it does have international flights but it's a very small and not very well equipped airport) so they had to fly over engineers with parts to fix the plane.
Next day we were told aircraft is fixed so we all boarded. While we were taxiing the plane kept on stopping....apparently the computers went haywire again! They said they'lll fix it....about 5hrs later we were told it was cancelled again as they werent happy with flying the plane anymore. By this point i had to call the hubby and tell him what was happening. His best friend already knew as so he actually told him but hubby couldn't get hold of me. My poor hubby was worried sick.
Feb 10th they flew in another aircraft from LHR and we finally made it to our destination (i got upgraded to business class! lol). Oh and to make things even more exciting we had a medical emergency on the plane and they asked for a doctor over the PA. We had no doctors! However i piped up that im a nurse lol the passenger was ok but i was highly intoxicated so i basically didnt sit in business and just sat with the passenger. They told me that if i wasnt happy with the passengers health they'll make another emergency landing. I was so we carried on. Other passengers were saying that they were glad that i was happy cause they couldn't take another emergency landing but i honestly wouldn't have said i was happy until i was. Im not sure im all that happy that i was put in that position considering i was drunk. I had to sober up super quick and just sat with her. Turns out she was dehydrated, stressed and well drunk. Hence the vomit.
My surprise visit to the hubby was totally ruined, i now only have 6 days with him but i met some wonderful wonderful people on the flight and im alive : ) I was extremely frustrated and annoyed but all in all it was ok. But seriously you could make a movie on the whole nightmare flight and how total strangers bonded.
My united airlines flight from LHR to LAX had to make an emergency landing in Ireland! The cockpit started smoking and something had caught on fire while we were making our cross over the Atlantic. The pilot very calmly said over the PA system "yeah cockpit is smoking so you may notice that we've just made a U turn to Shannon, Ireland. Oh and do not worry about the fuel that is being ejected, we are not comfortable making an emergency landing with this much fuel" - so yeah ball of fire if we landed bad >.< Shannon isnt an international airport (well it does have international flights but it's a very small and not very well equipped airport) so they had to fly over engineers with parts to fix the plane.
Next day we were told aircraft is fixed so we all boarded. While we were taxiing the plane kept on stopping....apparently the computers went haywire again! They said they'lll fix it....about 5hrs later we were told it was cancelled again as they werent happy with flying the plane anymore. By this point i had to call the hubby and tell him what was happening. His best friend already knew as so he actually told him but hubby couldn't get hold of me. My poor hubby was worried sick.
Feb 10th they flew in another aircraft from LHR and we finally made it to our destination (i got upgraded to business class! lol). Oh and to make things even more exciting we had a medical emergency on the plane and they asked for a doctor over the PA. We had no doctors! However i piped up that im a nurse lol the passenger was ok but i was highly intoxicated so i basically didnt sit in business and just sat with the passenger. They told me that if i wasnt happy with the passengers health they'll make another emergency landing. I was so we carried on. Other passengers were saying that they were glad that i was happy cause they couldn't take another emergency landing but i honestly wouldn't have said i was happy until i was. Im not sure im all that happy that i was put in that position considering i was drunk. I had to sober up super quick and just sat with her. Turns out she was dehydrated, stressed and well drunk. Hence the vomit.
My surprise visit to the hubby was totally ruined, i now only have 6 days with him but i met some wonderful wonderful people on the flight and im alive : ) I was extremely frustrated and annoyed but all in all it was ok. But seriously you could make a movie on the whole nightmare flight and how total strangers bonded.
Have a great rest of your not-so-surprise-visit! 
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