Check In Disaster

We cooked dinner for the last time in WA, packed our bags, clean out the fridge all in preparation for our departure tomorrow. By this stage it was 9pm and Andy decided to check us in via the Qantas app. He then gasped, I looked over to see his horrified face. What could possibly be wrong I thought. 

He came over showing me the flight details on the app and then I saw the departure date was not the 23rd July but the 25th July!! What, how could this have happen? We looked at each other and realised we hadn't received an email from the phone call earlier in the week when Andy had called Qantas to sort out our flights.

Immediately he was on the phone to Qantas.... another 1.5 hour wait. The Qantas person was friendly as he listened to our problem however after several minutes and various hmm's from Andy it was clear we were in a spot of bother. Turns out Andy decided to keep the flight via Brisbane that was scheduled for Sunday as it was the quickest way to get back to Canberra. The Covid outbreaks in Melbourne and Sydney had thrown the flight world back into chaos. He tried to to re route through Perth where we could bunker down with the Grandies but the first flight out of Perth to Canberra was not until the Tuesday night.

Our next challenge was to find accomodation. I was very concerned as when we booked in January for the accomodation we were in, there was not much available then. A quick google search though showed our resort was fully booked, but we found another resort in Cable Beach. It was less than ideal but we had to take what we could get. A one bedroom apartment with 2 sofa beds in the living space with a nice price tag of $500 per night. That's Broome for you!

Next on the list was extending the car hire but Europcar was closed so that was a job for the morning. By this stage it was 11pm and we were exhausted after all this stress. I thought perhaps this disaster might have a silver lining and checked to see if there were any spaces to Horizontal Falls on Saturday. It looked like there were spaces for tomorrow and Saturday! We hadn't received our refund yet, so I thought I'd call first thing in the morning to organise this too.