Thursday, January 04, 2007

The Amazing Race

Dec. 23, 2006
Thanks to Air Canada changing our flight to 1h45m later, we only had 1hr to make our connecting flight in Honolulu. The fact that we left the gate late, then had to taxi to the furthest runway from the terminal, and then took off towards the east didn't help either. Add the strong turbulence that prevented the stewards from serving beverages for at least the first hour of the flight and we had a situation that was doubtful if we would make our connecting flight to Kona. Six hours and 45 minutes later we arrived at the gate in Honolulu - with under 30 minutes until our next flight departed. As soon as the plane stopped moving, Kevin and I grabbed our carryon bags and rushed as far forward in the plane as we could. We had to wait a few minutes before they opened the door and the business/first class had exited before we could exit and begin the dash to the other terminal. We had to find the way to the other terminal 1km away and were running in hiking boots, long pants and coats in the 28°C Hawai'i evening. We made it to the check in with just under 10 minutes to spare. We checked in and then had to go through security. Fortunately this terminal was small and the security line up was short. Kevin passed his bags and shoes through the X-Ray machine and walked through the metal detector. The security guy checked his boarding pass, then radioed someone stating something about a "secondary male." Kevin was then directed to go back to the other side of the metal detector and sit in the chair. I walked through for my turn and then same thing happened. We had to wait a minute or two which seemed a lot longer before Kevin was allowed through, he picked up his bags and went to the boarding gate as they were paging us for a last boarding call on the plane. Meanwhile, I was waved through the metal detector, but then had to wait while another security person swabbed my shoes and bag. Finally we were out on the tarmac running towards our plane. They had just started to put the stairs away from the plane, but they saw us coming so they put it back and we made it on the plane. We were all sweaty, but we made it. We arrived in Kona on the Big Island a half hour later at 10:15pm where our parents picked us up and took us to the condo.

1 Comments:

At 4:43 PM, Blogger Mindy said...

That's a crazy story!! It's like from the movies or something. Those pictures are fantastic. You always go to such cool places.

 

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