Traveling with Ray Owens

Success! I did not wake Penny up this morning. She woke me up and greeted me with the news that our Qantas flight had been cancelled. Oh goody.

We tried getting information on our phones but we ran into issues with the WiFi connection. We have two devices at a time package. At one point the app said we needed to connect to the desktop version of Qantas. So I turned off the WiFi on my phone and turned on my computer. But my computer would not connect to the WiFi package. So off I went at 7:35 to the computer help center on deck 5. I was first in line for the 8:00 opening. There was an information sheet that said I needed to go to logout.com on my phone to actually logout. Turning off WiFi doesn’t log you out.

So I got the computer logged in and we discovered that Qantas had rebooked us on a flight from Brisbane to Sydney and from Sydney to LAX. They canceled the direct flight from Brisbane to LAX. But the flight Brisbane to Sydney was too early. We could not get off the ship in time to make that connection. So we needed to call Qantas.

So we could use Skype to call but that meant logging off the computer and back on to my phone.

There were a few fits and starts but we got Annie on the phone and told her our story. She looked and said there were no seats on any other flights to Sydney that morning and could we fly the next day? No we can’t. We said we would fly economy to Sydney as long e we kept our premium seats for Sydney to LAX. She found one that gave us less than two hours to change planes. We asked if that was enough time to change in Sydney. She said yes. But then asked us to hold.

When she came back she had miraculously found premium seats on the 12:15 to Sydney which would allow 2:35 minutes to change planes to LAX. Our bags would be checked through from Brisbane to LAX.

We said. yes book it.

We were about to end the call when I asked if we had assigned seats. She said yes and no. She fixed the no part and all is well.

So this morning was much more stressful than yesterday alarm disaster BUT it was not my fault . So I will take the win.

So we had breakfast about 10:00 and are now on our balcony looking at the nearly calm blue Pacific Ocean.

Dinner tonight was fun. Our table for two is near a window. A second table for two was right next to our table. Last evening no one sat there. Tonight a nice Aussie lady Jenny sat there. She is a frequent cruiser and was assigned a table for 8 last evening but she was only one there. So she switched to our table mate table. We had a nice conversation. She has had a pen pal since childhood from the USA. She only recently traveled to the USA to meet her pal. It turned out great she said.

The show this evening was “Feathers and Sequins “. Show boys and girls with some singing.