Stranded in Atlanta

Downtown Atlanta


The Jazz Festival "Winedown Wednesdays" in Centennial Park


In the CNN Plaza


We never had any intentions of spending a few days in Atlanta Georgia, but Delta Airlines had a different itinerary in mind. Michael, myself, and Madelyn were en route to Washington D.C and Virginia for my cousin's Angela's wedding. We happily left Dallas with our boarding passes ready or our lay over in Atlanta. It was not until we arrived in Atlanta did Delta decide to cancel the flight due to a lack of passengers to Charlottesville, VA. They automatically rebooked us for two days later, putting all of us on three different flights. Yeah, like that's going work for a three year old, yet alone making it to the wedding the next day. It took four hours in line with the customer care representative just to get us rebooked for the next morning. Oh did I mention that they were not going to provide a hotel room. By this point I was anything but polite and much more in the pissy mood. I do have to say its funny now that Michael, kept telling me to "Get, EM", as he stood behind me as I negotiated with the service agents! Finally after waiting another hour and demanding to speak to the manager did we get a crummy hotel room and meal vouchers.....and now the kicker...They LOST OF OUR LUGGAGE! So were stranded in Atlanta with no luggage for two days in a crummy smelly hotel room with a cranky sleep deprived three year old. So what else do you do with nothing to do......sight see! After pouting and realizing all the screaming and yelling was not going to get me there that evening, but it did make me feel better, I decide that it was better to make lemonade with the lemons that Delta delt us.


I wish that we had gotten out to see more earlier in the day, since many sights like the Cola-Cola Museum close at 5pm. We took the cheap sight seeing tour the MARTA (aka, the subway) into downtown and walked around and saw many of the downtown attractions like the Underground and the CNN towers & museum and even enjoyed a Jazz Festival happening in Centennial Park.

Luckily I packed extra clothes for Madelyn in my carry on, so she was just fine with this new hotel adventure. To ease our inconvenience's, Delta gave us a toiletry bag and a size medium tee-shirt to change into--yeah like that did any good for us. We finally made it into Charlottesville the next morning and I was ready to blow a gasket when our bags weren't there. Almost in tears I go up the baggage claim counter to file a missing bag report, when the nice guy says oh wait, I have your bags here, they flew them specially last night. Relived, but almost even more upset, because it they can fly our luggage the night before, why could they fly us with our bags.

Morale of the story: Avoid Delta Airlines!!!!

PS. Our return flight was delayed three hours because they forgot to schedule a pilot...arg!