A Bit of Travel Fail

[romyra]

So in case you missed it I traveled to the US of A  as of today to spend XMAS with my aunt. The trip was long and on the way I almost had to vomit 30 mins from touchdown in Newark.....I grabbed the vomit bag and fanned myself vigorously and the urge eventually passed. Dude....I felt really ill there for a bit. It could have been hunger or a result of the heavy turbulence but it was a close call. That wasn't the end of my troubles though....so I get off the plane, brave the long lines at immigration and get down to baggage claim only to NOT find my suitcase! I ask the handlers and I get sent down to the Baggage service center, I ask them and they send me to a place called QOH. I get there and they tell me my bag is with customs and to go back there, I go back and am told that a flight official needs to come get the bag, I go back to Baggage and they say no I have to go to re-check. I get there and they're like they have to wait for the bag to be processed and it could take upwards of 45 mins. I say god!!!! I look in the corner and lo and behold there is my bag against a wal. I'm allowed to take my bag and I get the hell out of dodge.

laurapetri     it is cold. I'm not dying yet though but the wind chill is ridiculous.

That's not the worst part though....they also cut the lock on the suitcase, rifled through my things and tore bags open to check the contents of each. I'm just glad that I put my changes of clothes in my carry-on else there may have been someone's hands all over my unmentionables. Violated by the man and my first day isn't even over yet.

Currently my aunt is cooking me dinner and I'm snacking on some kind of exotic vegetable chips using Blue potato, japanese pumpkin and carrots and salted with sea salt.

I'm hella sleepy though since I've been up since 4.25 am and never slept till about 2am so I'm really tired. I want to see the series finale of survivor though and if I go to sleep now I won't wake up.


*is tired*

Comments

[laurapetri.livejournal.com]

Travelling sucks!

[romyra]

But I'm here now and doing well!

[sunflower1343.livejournal.com]

I can't believe they messed with your stuff that way. But I heard on the news that there are rumors about attacks happening sometime in the next couple of months, so maybe they're being extra careful. But still... ^^; I'm sorry that had to happen to you.

[romyra]

At least I wasn't paged over the intercom or had to go to a little room and get strip searched or anything like that. It was only a couple of gift items in the bag so nothing was really taken. It was a bit unnerving though since I'd heard about things like this but I never thought that it would happen to me. But I'm okay and doing great.