So, we are stuck in the Stockholm airport. There are no pictures from this day. Too hectic.
Got here nice and early taking the Arlanda Express from the train station in Stockholm. Found our gate, got some food to eat and were sitting around without a care in the world waiting for our flight to Trondheim, Norway, when our friend Connie came up to us and said, "Our flights been CANCELLED!!!"
Plenty of scrambling around after that and waiting in long lines to get another flight to Trondheim. With the new flights, (each one of us couples on a different flight), there was no way we would all arrive early enough to go with our original plan of renting a car in Trondheim and driving to another town called Kristiansund - where our hotel reservation is for this night. So, more scrambling around to cancel the hotel in Kristiansund and make new reservations in Trondheim. New plane reservations from Stockholm to Oslo to Trondheim. Yippee! The airline gave us a food voucher for our troubles - which BARELY covers a small hamburger. Oh well. It will have to do as it's better than nothing.
We'll see how this being half a day behind now is going to affect this trip!
Update to our day:
So, we got two small hamburgers, fries and a coke with our vouchers - plus an ice cream because we wouldn't get any money back if we didn't use the whole thing. It was a decent lunch, if not a healthy one. Then it was time to get on our plane. Our flight went fine. One thing we learned about SAS airlines today. They unload passengers through both the front and the back. On the first flight, we were waiting for the guy in the aisle to start heading to the back because that end was finishing first. He just stood there and looked at us with a wry smile. But when he noticed we wanted to go out, he moved aside like, well, suit yourself. I saw why later. Those who go out the front get to go down a covered hall from the plane to the concourse. Those who go out the back have to climb down stairs from the plane, then climb BACK up stairs to get to the same little hallway that the people from the front had just gone out of. I saw the guy who let us go around him inside the plane, way ahead of us, walking inside, looking down at us with a look like, guess you all know why I wouldn't go....
A casualty of our stop in Oslo - I lost my umbrella. In the grand scheme of things, that's nothing really, but it upsets me to think that I didn't remember it, wherever it was that I left it.
It was dark by the time we got to Trondheim. We got off the plane, got our stuff, picked up our rental van and then headed to our hotel - which is extremely nice. A little pricier than we would have liked, but all we could get with these last minute change of plans. So, the evening ended with us being able to relax in a very nice place.
John and Angie's plane didn't arrive until 10:40 that evening and when they finally arrived, it was without John's suitcase. So, there go our plans for the next day. Supposedly they will deliver it tomorrow by 1pm - and we had wanted to take off relatively early. Oh well, nothing that can be done except wait. Lots of waiting lately......
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