Travel Plan Fiasco and Brooklyn again

Oh man. It was bound to happen for one of my visits but I still cant believe that it did! So I went to the Norfolk airport on Sunday about an hour before my flight and was ready to check in, I handed them my ID and I got the answer, "we dont have any travel plans for you for today".... WHAT?! So they asked for a confirmation number, which of course I did not write down, very amateur of me! So I left the line, went over to a bench, turned on my lap top real quick and looked at the confirmation email.

Ah, ha...... This is when I discovered that I had booked travel for 11/19 and not 11/9. Damn that extra 1!!! So, now I am alone in Norfolk, the chapter has left, because I told them I could get my ticket myself... yeah, well easier said than booked. So I went back in line and told the woman that we needed to make a small miracle happen and get me to Laguardia TODAY. Thankfully there was a flight about four hours later, *whew, crisis avoided.... oh whats that? Its going to cost $150 to change my flight?! The ticket only cost $105 in the first place! OH!! Well, I really have no other options, so okay, here is my credit card, charge away, and don't forget the $15 to check a bag and the $50 overweight fee. This time my bag only weighed 61 pounds. So we are down 6 pounds from the last flight, which adds to my theory that really none of these scales are right.

Total Flights: 2, Norfolk to Dulles, Dulles to Laguardia
Total Fees: $215: $150 to change the flight, $15 to check a bag and $50 because its too heavy, yet I can lift it and I'm a small person!
Total Bagage Fees to date: $309 (omg, and that does not count the fees to check the bag, that is alllll overweight fees).

Being back in Brooklyn is nice, its so great to see familiar places and faces. I got to see the sun setting as I was flying in, it was absolutely beautiful, when my travel plans go on as normal, I usually dont get to see the sunset! I was also on the right side of the plane to see all of the NYC sights from the air. I saw the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Empire State Building all lit up.

Preparations for Installation are going well. This weekend many volunteers and National officers will be traveling to Brooklyn to make our Pratt colony officially our Eta Phi Chapter. We are literally making history. I have been busy making last minute preparations, getting wrapping paper for gifts, inventorying supplies that have been sent, going over budgets, making sure everything is checked off and people know where they need to be and what needs to happen. I feel like I'm planning a wedding. We have table rentals, flatware rentals, catering, photographer's, favors that need to be distributed. After this... I feel like I can plan one!

Tonight I had an adventure in mid-town. I was invited by one of the Foundation GOLD representatives to a dessert reception on 40th to meet some NYC area Sigmas. So I very bravely (after looking on hopstop.com) took the Subway to meet them. It was great! Most of the women were from our Beta Upsilon chapter at Penn State University. Some of them were in areas where chapter's that I have visited need advisors, so it was great to be able to share information with them and make new connections. It also made me feel great to know that I was navigating NYC all by myself! I didnt even take the wrong train.

What does that say about me that I can take the right train, but I cant book a flight on the right day? Really though....