Friday, May 13, 2022

Rest Day 3 🤬😱😡

Well, another day of disappointments has gone by. We woke with much anticipation that our packs would finally be here, but within 30 seconds of walking into the airport we saw that WS30 from Halifax had been cancelled. Noooooooooooo!!!!!!! Feeling stunned, I went to find somebody to talk to. At that point I honesty felt that I could have cried, I was so frustrated. While I believe the staff at the airport honestly wanted to help us, I don’t think they were actually capable of it. Telling us where they thought our bags were, or when they might get here does not help at this point. Helping us would be coming up with a solution to get them here faster, or having an actual responsible human with the power to do something call us, or confirming that our packs were 100% ready to be put on tonight’s flight in Halifax. As for WestJet.... I don’t even know where to start. Their response (more like complete lack of response) has been atrocious. By design, it is virtually impossible to contact somebody who knows something or can do something. We received zero calls or updates from them throughout all of this, which from a customer point of view only magnified the issue. I can honestly say I will try to avoid ever using them again, not out of spite, but simply because I believe that they really don’t care about people.
After sitting at the Starbucks with our 15£ voucher for three hours feeling stunned and dejected, and not knowing what to do, we booked into another hotel and headed back into downtown Glasgow for the afternoon for an early check-in and a few more episodes of Law And Order.
Here are the things that helped get us through today:
1. Our good friend Audrey from home made the brilliant suggestion that we just get on with the walk “Naked And Affraid” style. 🤣
2. This meme was sent to us by our other good friend Sarah from Ontario. We got a lot of miles and laughs out of it as we used it over and over. Try it, and we promise you won’t be able to stop. 😂

Try It And You Won’t  Be Able To Stop Either

3. We went for dinner at Pizza Punks Glasgow. The pizzas were delicious, and the service was excellent. Amanda - Salt & Chilli, think chicken korma, peppers, onions, fior de latte. JM - Build Your Own, goat cheese, olive, mushrooms, spicy pepperoni, caramelized pineapple. Yummmmmmmm!!!  We highly recommend it!

YUMMY!!!!! 🤤

We are getting ready to call it a night, and head back to the airport tomorrow morning first thing. If our bags are there we will be traveling all day to our start point. If not, our window of opportunity will be firmly closed and we will be doing everything we can to get put back onto a flight home. We’ll see what happens...
Thanks to everybody who have reached out with ideas, and words of encouragement and support. It has really helped, and we are thankful for your kindness.
Stay tuned for updates.....

2 comments:

  1. Another bright thing to look forward to is our Ireland trip. Stay positive. Gam Zeh Ya’avor wiphich is Hebrew for “this too shall pass”.

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    1. Thanks for the wise words, Tim!! And thanks for reading along. We are off to the airport now to see if there are any packs waiting for us....

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