Third time might tell the truth, but the second seals the deal for me

Ah, Slowtrailia, the country down under, where things are not upside down even though the dumb might think so. How ever, things are slow, at least if your flying Qantas.

To get to the point of the story, I will first list all the things that have already happened during our effort to get back home. All these events kind of make me feel like I wasn't meant to leave NZ in the first place.

First of all, we had obviously packed too much. Mum had stuffed her bag with stones (almost half of New Zealand) and ceramics. We also had to take home a lot of my shoes and stuff I bought during my shopping mania yesterday. This over packing, or the weight of it, almost cost us money, but luckily Qantas has a limit of 32kg as maximum weight for a bag, so we were saved by 0,5kg. But this didn't stop us from being troubled by this, since our last flight with Finnair only allows 20kg! Ouch. The other problem was, that the lady at the desk couldn't get our boarding passes for the last flight from Heathrow to Helsinki (GO ENGLAND!) so we will inevitably have to get of the plane, get our bags and check in all over again at Heathrow. Of course we didn't think it would be more than an annoyance, since we would have had about 4 hours to do it.

However all not so good, but not so bad things must come to an end. And in the end, this little hope we had, had to inevitably, run out. This of course, is all thanks to Qantas, the company owned by Slowtrailians. Now, the last time I blogged about Slowtrailia, I mentioned a delay because of engineering problems. Sure the saying goes: lightning never strikes twice in the same place, but I think we all know that's not true.

We had sat on the plane for two hours until they finally decided to just get all the people out and roll the aircraft to be fixed. ''We are so sorry folks, we know it's an annoyance,'' the captain said. Well it is, and frankly I'm a bit annoyed too. How bad nick are these Qantas planes in if they are constantly getting fixed? Why don't they test them before they let people on board? I would probably get home quicker if I sent myself in cargo than flying Qantas. Sure I'm exaggerating again, but that's because I represent the passenger with no patience, and that's a big minority.

So thanks again Qantas, because of you we will probably be late for our flight at Heathrow, because of you I won't get back home in time for my lessons, because of you I will lose my courses at school and because of you I'm going to ''enjoy'' another airport cafe using your 20$ coupon. And now, while I walk a way to calm down, please switch on Kelly Clarksons' hit song: Because of you.

P.s We just got an announcement, that our new departure time is 10pm and with a new aircraft. So goodbye connection in Heathrow. And goodbye Qantas too, since we won't be meeting for a long, long, long time.