I'm so looking forward to the weekend!
Some of you might know I went to a research conference in LA last week (which went really well, by the way - no one told me my poster was stupid!
). So from Wednesday to Saturday it was talks back to back for most of the whole day.
Sunday we leave the airport at 10 am LA time (noon Texas time). The flight was supposed to be just over 2 and a half hours long. Just when we were about at Dallas, the pilot tells us that the weather is so bad there, that we're going to make a pitstop in Lubbock, TX, get gas, then wait for the weather to clear up.
So we land in Lubbock, and can't get off the plane. The pilot gets on and tells us that it should be clear now, we just have to wait for gas. An hour later (!) he tells us that the gas truck has finally gotten there, and we're taking off soon.
Its another hour to Dallas, and then we sit on the runway for an hour and a half waiting for planes to get out of our gate.
By this point in time, its almost 6 in the evening, and we've been on the same plane for about six hours! I was ready for any sort of change in scenery!
I should also say I'd had a muffin to eat since breakfast, since planes unfortunately no longer provide food.
So we finally get to Dallas, knowing we had missed our scheduled flight to College Station, but also knowing that one of the girls in the other lab we went to the conference with had an evening flight that we might be able to make. So we go to her gate, look for her, and find her. She tells us that one of the other girls, who had left campus at 4:30 in the morning LA time to catch a flight at 6:50 am and be home in CS by 2, was STILL at the airport!
Apparently Dallas canceled two flights already from DFW to College Station that evening. The lady at the desk was quite rude (apparently she'd already had a really bad, really long day, so in retrospect I can't really blame her) but we figured we wouldn't get a ride on that plane either.
I called my little brother, who goes to school in the Dallas area, and he agreed to drive us to College Station that evening (my hero!!
) so that we wouldn't have to spend the night, and we decided to wait around to make sure that the last girl didn't get stranded in Dallas too. Good thing, cause they canceled the last flight too at around 9pm, and not for weather problems.
So we finally all got in to CS at 1 in the morning, and had to work the next day.
More in next post!
Some of you might know I went to a research conference in LA last week (which went really well, by the way - no one told me my poster was stupid!
Sunday we leave the airport at 10 am LA time (noon Texas time). The flight was supposed to be just over 2 and a half hours long. Just when we were about at Dallas, the pilot tells us that the weather is so bad there, that we're going to make a pitstop in Lubbock, TX, get gas, then wait for the weather to clear up.
So we land in Lubbock, and can't get off the plane. The pilot gets on and tells us that it should be clear now, we just have to wait for gas. An hour later (!) he tells us that the gas truck has finally gotten there, and we're taking off soon.
Its another hour to Dallas, and then we sit on the runway for an hour and a half waiting for planes to get out of our gate.
So we finally get to Dallas, knowing we had missed our scheduled flight to College Station, but also knowing that one of the girls in the other lab we went to the conference with had an evening flight that we might be able to make. So we go to her gate, look for her, and find her. She tells us that one of the other girls, who had left campus at 4:30 in the morning LA time to catch a flight at 6:50 am and be home in CS by 2, was STILL at the airport!
Apparently Dallas canceled two flights already from DFW to College Station that evening. The lady at the desk was quite rude (apparently she'd already had a really bad, really long day, so in retrospect I can't really blame her) but we figured we wouldn't get a ride on that plane either.
I called my little brother, who goes to school in the Dallas area, and he agreed to drive us to College Station that evening (my hero!!
So we finally all got in to CS at 1 in the morning, and had to work the next day.
More in next post!