How We Almost Went to L.A.

I realized my blog needs more tales of the funny little things that happen in our lives… because I’m treating this as a journal and I know there are some things I’m going to want to remember years later.

So… here is a funny story…

A few months back after our “when are we doing something fun?” talk that resulted in a decision to go to San Diego, Neal started looking at flights. I think it was the summer at the time so I let him handle finding flights since he had more free time than I did.

He found an amazing deal, booked them and I confirmed my time off from work!

We were set to jet! Literally.

About two months go by… its October and my Aunt and I had been excitedly emailing back and forth about our trip down there and I forward her our flight itinerary so she knew our airline, and arrival times, etc.

As I was forwarding her the info, something caught my eye.

We were booked to arrive in SNA- John Wayne Airport, Orange County.

Huh?

Shouldn’t it be SAN? For San Diego?

My mind started racing. Was San Diego in Orange County? No, I swear that was just L.A… was San Diego’s airport actually called John Wayne? Before I sent the info to my Aunt, I Googled John Wayne Airport.

Yep. It was in L.A. We were flying into L.A. John Wayne Airport was about 3 hours away from my Aunt’s house.

I tell Neal was happens and he is like “WHAT????????? I SWEAR I searched for SAN. How did I get an L.A. flight???????”

As much as these types of things tend to stress me out, I had to laugh… the poor guy searched for SAN, and got duped by a pesky SNA flight that slipped in there.

So what to do?

You know those situations where you try and figure something out and its like “well, if we do “A”, then “B, C, and D” will happen, but if we do “E”, then “F, G, and H” will happen, but if we want to do “B”, can we do it if we chose “E”?

That was us trying to figure out what to do… if we flew into L.A, we could immediately spend a day in Disneyland, but that would require us to get a hotel, which we didn’t want to do. And we’d have to rent a car, which is an expense we didn’t want.. but we wanted to go to Disneyland, so wouldn’t it make more sense to fly into L.A. then? So we weren’t driving back and forth a ton?

Or we could have my Aunt come pick us up, but with gas prices how they are, we didn’t want to make her do that. Or we could rent a car one way, and have my Aunt drive us just one way…Or we could try and cancel these flights and get routed into San Diego.

Neal calls the airline and they are super nice about, even though we can’t fully cancel our flights. We turn our flights into vouchers that can used on any flight in the Domestic U.S. over the next year.

I go online and find flights (that were actually cheaper than our original flights) for San Diego and book them. So the only downside is that we were out double the money, since we had to buy flights twice, but now we have a reason to go on a trip next year since we already have airline credits.

So.. win/win kinda? We got cheaper flights to San Diego, and a reason to get our butts on a plane next year and travel again… something I want to incorporate into our life more anyway.