Flight nightmares

It was July of 2008 and I had just graduated high school. As my graduation present my parents paid for me to go to Spain with my dance team to perform and travel. I had been awaiting this trip for over a year and the day had finally arrived! We were taking off from Vancouver International Airport over to London England and then from there to our final destination of Malaga Spain. I had literally just stepped out of the shower when my mom received a phone call informing her that my flight had changed and I needed to be at the airport in an hour. Well as a procrastinator my bad wasn't fully packed so I threw the last of my belongings in my suitcase praying I hadn't forgotten any costumes that I needed for our performances. Arriving at the airport just in time wet hair and all my adventure had finally begun.

My team and I were originally supposed to fly on British Airways but they cancelled our flight and had put us on Air Canada. A bit of a downgrade but as long as it was getting me to Europe I was happy. Once we got our tickets we realized that none of us were sitting together since we were last minute additions to this flight. I boarded the plane and found myself in the middle section of the plane in a middle seat... not too happy about my seat but tried to look past it. I sat down and there was a very large man to my right who was taking up the whole armrest. Not very polite since he had an open armrest all to himself on his ale side. There was a lady to my left who also had propped her arm up on my armrest so I had to sit there like a tube directly in the middle. To make matters worse the lady was constantly shaking which then cause my seat to tremble as well. But it was time for take off and we were one our way! Normally on British Airways you get your own personal TV to watch movies but on Air Canada they just have one movie playing on monitors spread throughout the cabin. And what movie was playing? none other than the movie I had watched the night before with my friends, "Defiantly Maybe". I came to the quick conclusion that I should just drug myself with pills to make me sleepy for most of the flight. A couple of drowsy gravols later I found my head bobbing. But with no arm rest I had to direction to lead my body so I couldn't get into a comfortable seating position. I stumbled my way up to two of my friends to see if they had any pillows. Luckily one of my friends had the shaped neck pillows so I was able to stumble back to my seat and fall asleep for most of the flight to London.

 We landed in London to find out that we had also been switched to a different connecting flight than originally planned and we only had a certain amount of time to run from one side of the airport to another. Also with this news we found out only half of us would be continuing onto Spain that night and the rest would spend a night in London... I was on the flight heading to Spain so I'm running through the airport with some of my teammates in our matching tracksuits looking like crazy people. Once we arrived at the terminal we were informed that the rest of our team was able to come on our flight and we'd all arrive in Spain together.

The two weeks went by insanely fast and it was already time to head back to Vancouver. Once again we had to fly from Malaga Spain to London England and then to our final destination of Vancouver Canada. Thankfully this time we were flying back on British Airways rather than Air Canada so all I was looking forwards to was my own personal TV! We board the full flight and luckily all get to sit together for once. Once we took off our TV's were activated for use but as I saw my friends' TV's lighting up mine stayed black. I tried playing around with the buttons and I got it to go a fuzzy grey colour but no luck on turning on my TV. I asked a flight attendant if she knew how to fix it or could do anything. She informed me my TV was broken and the flight was full so there was no other seat for me. After all that I found myself once again taking my drowsy gravol pills so I could fall asleep for another 9 hour flight. I'm hopeful that I got all my bad flight luck out of the way in one trip but we all know that's very doubtful.