I'm sorry, I thought you said December 8th.

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  Phuket, Thailand
Saturday, November 29, 2008

We spent the rest of Thursday and Friday much the same. In the morning, we wake up and hit up the free breakfast. Although, it's starting to lose it's appeal. I don't understand why they serve curry and rice for breakfast. Where is the bacon and hash browns? After breakfast, we head to the pool for the morning and then go to the beach in the afternoon. We come back and nap til about 7PM and then head out for dinner. Picture ground hog day. However, Saturday was a little different.

With our flight back to Chicago on Sunday, we started to get a little worried since both airports are still closed. We aren't even sure at this point when they open up and if we will get a flight out of here. After laying by the pool for a few hours, we decided to call the airline. Frank was the brave one to make the call. We booked our flight through expedia so we started with them. They told Frank that they need to get a waiver from Asiana in order to re-route us. They asked if we could fly from Phuket and we were so happy at that point. We told them we were in Phuket and could leave at anytime. That's when they delivered the news, "we can get you out of Phuket on December 8th." I'm sorry, I thought you said December 8th? Surely that can't be right. Oh, but it can. Apparently, all the flights out of Phuket are booked until 12/8. They said if we could get ourselves to another city, they can try to re-route out of there. That's when we all jumped up and ran to the computers downstairs. We checked everything, but Phuket was booked solid until 12/5. We could get on a flight to Singapore. Asiana flew from Singapore to Seoul and then to Chicago. We were thrilled. We would get home on 12/6. We ran upstairs and called back Expedia. What they failed to tell us was that since they already made a change to our reservation, making another change would cost $250 per passenger, plus the difference in airfare. The flight from Singapore to Seoul: $1400; from Seoul to Chicago: $1500. Our one way ticket: $500. You do the math. We obviously said no. We would only get back to work one day early and it just wasn't worth paying over $2500.

So, here we are in Phuket, where we will remain until December 8th. We land in Chicago the same day, due to the time difference. We miss all of our friends and family terribly. But as Frank always says, "If there is any place I want to be stuck, it's here in Phuket" and then he cries because he wants to go home to Zac.

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