Getting There Is Half The Fun

I hope right now everyone else in our group who has made it to Rome is thoroughly enjoying themselves. Sadly, I am in the flight group that is still stuck in Amsterdam. Let me give you a little recap. On January 4th my flight group left Minneapolis around 11:40. Then we had to go to Amsterdam via Detroit. A not so funny thing happened on the way to Amsterdam. Our flight was delayed for about an hour and fifteen minutes by... MAINTENANCE! Yes, instead of maybe putting us on a working plane our airline in its infinite wisdom decided to make us sit there forever and a day before finally telling us what was going on. So we eventually got to Amsterdam, but we ended up missing our flight because our previous connection got in late. Then we ended up re-booking for a flight to Rome that was supposed to leave at 12:30. I say WAS supposed to because now it's been delayed until 2:10. To show you how nerdy I am I will quote Battlestar Galactica: Frak This! I hope soon to be writing about the beauty and wonders of Rome, one of my favorite cities. For now I will write about misadventures in travel. The bad news is that I'm not in Rome yet. The good news is that I'm getting really good at playing Angry Birds on my iPhone. I have no doubt though that by the end of this trip we will have had such a great time that we'll look back on this and laugh. For now, it's back to Angry Birds.