There's nothing like an airport for bringing you down to earth

What a pain in the backside it has been to get flights to Finland with a reasonable price...
Basically I have been waiting for a while now to get information from Chris when he will be on holiday from the gray and green colours of the army, but since he has been in the detention center it has been very difficult to get any information out of him. Well finally on the weekend I got confirmation of the dates that we might be able to go to Finland and since then I have been desperately surfing on every single website in the internet trying to find flights for us but before I go into that let me tell you a bit about yesterday...

So yesterday I got my holiday approved by my manager and I thought that once I get home I go online and book us the flights. When I left work it was raining and naturally I didn't have a jacket with me because after all IT IS JULY!!! Well, I decided to wait for a bus since it takes me closer to home (than tube or DLR would) which means less walking in the rain. This bus is supposed to run every 10 minutes but after 30 minutes of waiting in the rain the bus finally shows up... I was not happy. I got on and the driver with very bad teeth said something to me that I didn't quite catch - I asked what he said and he repeated himself but all I heard was "jada jada jada jada, I have really stinking bad teeth" - I just said "OK" and went to sit down. For a second I felt good because I though that he had apologised that the bus was running late - could I have been more wrong.
Near Blackwall Tunnel roundabout the bus stops and the driver announces that it was the last stop - this was about 4 stops from where I had got on... Blackwall Tunnel roundabout is no where near of basically anything so at first I thought that I just wait at that bus stop for the next bus (and so did 15 other people) but then I thought how late that previous bus had been and decided to walk to Blackwall DLR station (in the rain...). I know they say that if the bus is late and you have already been waiting you should never start walking because the odds are that the moment you leave the bus will arrive but yesterday that wasn't the case and I am happy I decided to do what I did. It took me probably 10 - 15 minutes to walk to the station and take the DLR and when the train passed the bus stop where the bus had left us I saw the same people waiting for the bus still... in the rain.

When I finally got home my socks and shoes were dripping of water and I was feeling a bit miserable. After a long hot shower I sat down on my chair and started the mad surfing for the flights. Ryan Air: no space - Blue1: space but very expensive - SAS: space but VERY expensive - KLM: same story - BA: same.... I was starting to sink to the feeling of self pity every time I saw the figures go up. Then I got an idea - We will fly to Tallinn and take a boat from there to Finland and here's the result for that: Easy Jet: Space but times were awkward and prices not THAT much cheaper - Other companies: VERY EXPENSIVE. So there it was, another set back and I heard myself sobbing already, the stress was making me mad. I checked flights to Stockholm and even St. Petersburgh but there was always something that put me off from booking the tickets.
Then I finally decided to book the ridiculously expensive Brittish Airways tickets just to get rid of the stress and when I had pressed the "book these tickets" button a notification comes on my screen saying that the card I used to pay for the flights was not accepted. At that moment I turned off my laptop and went to the kitchen to make me some food. I was starving and in the verge of tears because I was so stressed out that we were not going to go on a holiday and I wasn't going to see my family and friends. I told myself to calm down because I was acting hysterical at that point, I wasn't quite understanding why I was so emotional about the whole thing but I really could have used a hug and someone telling me that everything was going to be fine (which I probably would have argued saying "how the f**** you think things will be fine!!???" - lol I am not good at taking comforting unless the words actually mean something).

So the result of yesterday: no flights booked and 1 sad little girl hugging her aromatherapeutic duck.

Well... today I came to work and booked us flights to Finland (it's a miracle what a calm mind after a night of sleep can do). I had entered the wrong expiery date of my credit card to the booking details and that's why my card hadn't been accepted on the BA site. I nipped 2 days off from our holiday and got a fairly reasonable price by doing that as well (still you could have a nice holiday in Spain with the money we paid for just the flights...). I feel SO relieved that it has now been taken care of and in roughly 2 weeks I will see my family again (and I get to show Chris where I am from!)