Honeymoon Blogs pt 1

Trip notes, evening, 9/21:

For those that don't know, our plane from austin, delayed on the ground
and in the air, instead of landing the 45 min before the dublin plane
left, like it was supposed to, landed just in time for us to run across
half the airport, and skid to a stop in front of the gate to be told by
the gate attended that we had missed it by just about 8 min.

The delta customer service was, contrary to most reports, was friendly
and as helpful as regulations allowed them to be, though a little worn
from having about 15% of the air travelers for the day yell at them.
Storm season is a bad time to work in airline customer service.

We got a discounted hotel room, and a couple of tickets for free drinks,
and were rebooked for the next flight to dublin. Unfortunately, we had
not counted on exactly how rare flights from georgia to dublin actually
are, so the earliest was a flight boards 8:25 tonight, a full 24 hours
after our previous plane left. We had lost a day in Ireland, and were
both frazzled and upset.

A little food and a good night's sleep later, we were able to consider
the upsides. Atlanta, despite the fact that we really didn't want to be
here, did have a pretty wide range of cool things to see and do, and a
comprehensive mass transit system that could get us there.

We made it out to five points, the atlanta underground, and the
coca-cola museum. We were thinking of heading to the aquarium and a
movie, but time and weather worked against us.

We made it back to the airport, checked in, and changed currency, and
are now waiting outside the gate for boarding. Looks like we'll be
waiting another half hour or so.