themongrel

Man...what a LAME day!

What was supposed to be a cool trip to Aspen to watch the Winter X Games, went something like this...
8:30am - noon: Work
noon - 1pm: Lunch
1:00pm: Went to LAX to catch flight to Aspen (via Denver)
2:45pm: Depart LAX (forced to check carry-on bag because of full overhead bins)
5:45pm: Arrive in Denver
6:30pm: 6:45pm flight to Aspen is announced to be delayed because of snow.
8:00pm: Flight to Aspen is cancelled

At this point we had a decision to make. The next flight to Aspen wasn't until noon out of Denver, meaning we had to get a hotel or stay the night in the Denver airport (yay for 16 hours). Also there wasn't any guarantee those flights would go to Aspen either because the snow wasn't letting up up there and there was an 80% chance of snow on Sat. as well. Another option was to rent a car (or take a shuttle bus), but Aspen is 4 hours driving on a good day and the weather was NOT good. So, it had a high likelihood of freezing cold stranded glory. Last option, get back on a plane to LA and forget about it.

9:50pm: Got on a plane back to LA.
11:00pm: Back in LA and filed a missing bag receipt for the bag that they forced me to check that never got to Aspen.

Gooooooooood times.