We haven’t left the country yet but Coral and I have already encountered great difficulties.

Tomorrow morning we were supposed to fly at 10:45am from Sydney, Australia to Santiago, Chile with a quick stopover in Auckland, New Zealand. Unfortunately for us the plane is having issues, and our Sydney - Auckland leg was cancelled.

I was rescheduled onto an earlier Syd - Akl Qantas flight, leaving at an evil and ungodly hour of 7:35am, which means I have to be at the airport at 5:35am. I am immensely unhappy about this, however can live with it.

Coral however was scheduled on an Air New Zealand Syd - Akl flight which doesn’t leave Sydney until AFTER our flight was due to fly from Auckland to Santiago.

So… our day today consisted of the following:

•  Panic
• Stress
• Worry
• Talk to Qantas
• Call Flight Centre
• Get grumpy because Flight Centre’s entire system was down
• Get on plane to Sydney, very worried
• Get off plane in Sydney, call Flight Centre
• Got a bimbo, no help
• Call Air NZ, can’t reschedule
• Call Lan Chile (in the USA from a mobile) who rescedules
• Go to Sydney International to pick up new tickets

It does indeed appear I may be leaving Australia at 7:35am. But at this stage, we’ll see.