After that revaluation, there was a domino effect. I apologize to Zachary, my mom & dad and Ronnie and Tai for being short with them. I then found out that both my suitcases were 54lbs, with 50lbs being the limit. After distributing all the excess weight to one suitcase, they charged me $50 for one overweight luggage. Then the attendant gave us 2 options: either take the flight to Chicago and be stranded there because of the severe thunderstorms or take a chance and take the flight to washington, dulles and see if we could connect to LAX before the storms hit. We did it. We thought we were well on our way.
We then both said goodbye to our parents. My mother DID end up coming after all. I thought she as doing well, until we reached security. She couldn't stop the tears. She hugged me 3 times and she almost got me. Almost.
When I reached security, I was "randomly selected" for extensive screening. Awesome. I had to stand in a tube style screening booth. Air blew from holes everywhere and I had to wait for a green light. I then stepped through a metal detector. I beeped, of course. I stepped back through and was fine. Then they dumped out my entire carry on. My poor tote was molested. But I ended up getting through the line even before Rosanna.
After sitting down a moment and playing DS, Rosanna egin to tell me her luggage was only 37lbs! Wait you mean I could have just put my extra 8lbs in your suitcase?! Yep. Rosanna and her parents tried to tell me but I was a little too frazzled to listen since we were on opposite ends of the room trying to yell back and forth while I was repacking again. So I basically I just ripped up $50 cash and made it confetti for United.
By this point we though we were just going to wait out the flight. Then it was delayed. 1 hour, 2 hours then 3 hours. We were sitting right next to the gate counter and heard the radio. There was lightning on the runway and they couldn't let us on the plane. Fantastic.
We opted to reschedule our flights the next day. 2:23 departure for Dulles and arrive in LAX at 7:10. Fine. We stayed over at Rosanna's sisters house. Thank god she lives 10 mins from the airport. Our flight from LAX to Taipei was still up in the air and it was in the back of our minds that the flight was possibly filled. The offices were closed that late at night and Orbitz was useless as usual. They couldn't do anything for us tonight.
Malaysia airlines does not open until 6am on the west coast so we eagerly watched the clock until it hit 9am. Rosanna and I held hands while the woman on the line searched for seating on tonights red-eye flight. Meanwhile, our training begins on Saturday and we wouldn't be arriving in Taipei until Saturday morning at 6:30am. Cool.
Malaysia said that there were no more economy flights available tonight. Business and Fisrt Class only. Great! It's just that they want an extra $350 to upgrade. What. The. F*ck. We tried to negotiate a better rate with a supervisor, but since it's 6am in LA there was no one available to speak to. I've scraped and saved for months and I'm not letting go of that money easily. We're going to call back when we get to the airport. I'm also getting a refund for the ridiculous $50 I spent on excess baggage. We repacked and our 4 suitcases are all at 49lbs on the dot.
I'll update after I land in LA. Wish me luck!
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