June 5, 2007

• I Heart Vacations

  For some reason I have yet to discern, I don't want to talk about the wedding. Any of it. Or look at pictures. I have a huge cauldron of emotions swirling around about it and I can't even begin to process it. Maybe I'm just sad it went by so quickly, maybe... and, see, there we start heading down the path that I'm trying desperately to avoid. There are a lot of maybies. There were a lot of things that went well, some that didn't, but I just don't want to get into all of it right now. It's still too close and raw.

  But the vacation part is nice. Minus KLM magically losing the reservation for the Amsterdam to Athens leg of our trip. They blamed Northwest (who I'm sure when we talk to them, will blame Expedia), then made us standby for the flight that we were supposed to have confirmed reservations for, luckily we got the last 2 seats on that plane or we would've had to stay in Amsterdam for another 9 hours. Here's the thing: I understand that shit proverbially happens and that sometimes it's going to happen to you. It wasn't that they lost the reservation, it was that they took NO RESPONSIBILITY for it and that they weren't terribly apologetic about it. Also, if you're going to be "partner airlines" and one of those partners screws up, whoever I am currently standing in front of (KLM, in this instance) needs to take responsibility and make it better and then behind the scenes deal with their partner over the problem. I do not expect that I should be told by the KLM desk person that I should write a lettler of complaint to Northwest, I expect an apology and something like free upgrades to make up for their grave mistake and our inconvenience. As it stands, they are both getting letters of complaint because I don't know who screwed up (and, as I point out above, it doesn't matter), all I know is that when we checked-in in Seattle, they checked our luggage through to Athens and we were told that we would have to get seat assignments for the Amsterdam-Athens leg in Amsterdam (because KLM will not assign seats until you check in) and were given, along with our Seattle-Amsterdam bording pass a receipt showing confirmed reservations on the Amsterdam-Athens leg.

  I was going to write about how nice our vacation has been so far, otherwise, but DP (I guess DH, now) just came in and told me that the one thing that I was MOST looking forward to (a Junior Suite with our own veranda and partitioned off section of the pool) in Crete was not, despite our discussions, what our travel agent actually booked and now they don't have anymore Junior Suites open. I know this sounds awfully whiny, I should be glad that I get to go to Greece in the first place, but I wouldn't be nearly as pissed right now if the Junior Suite had not been what we thought we paid for. I am so furious. And disappointed. Skinny girls who wear bikins don't have any idea what it meant to me to have my own section of the pool.

  I wasn't going to mention it, but now that this post is a full-on rant, can I add that I came down with a cold yesterday? Today I have the kind of barking-seal cough that makes people give me the evil eye for being out and about sharing my affliction-- particularly in the aftermath of the drug-resistant TB guy (who, PS, honeymooned in Santorini and Mykonos). Does anyone know how much Vitamin C you can safely take in one day? The ankle is holding up pretty well, still gets swollen and a little painful by the end of the day, but is otherwise okay.

  Okay... next post will be about how much fun I'm having (which I am) and how beautiful it is (which it is) I promise.

  PS When I wrote the title for this post, it was not meant to be sarcastic, but reading it with the actual post that ended up underneath it sure makes it sound sarcastic! )

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