Delhi and Flight delays!

Egad, I've never had such a trying time in my life. Got back from Delhi late last night due to a flight delay, couldnt even sleep in late as had to rush to work for an early morning presentation. So glad to get back home and relaxxxxxxxx...

This Delhi trip was really trying (our head office being at Delhi). Monday morning had to take the 8.05am flight and to our amazement on reaching the airport, my colleague (Resh) and I were informed that we'd have to move to a later flight on account of our flight being overbooked. We took the option of moving to another airline but that too was overbooked. At the nth hour our original airline managed to get seats for us and heaving a sigh of relief we boarded. However our relief was short lived when on arriving at Delhi, due to traffic n fog, we ended up circling atop the airport, and guess what, the plane ran out of fuel, so we headed to Jaipur for refueling, and then back to Delhi again. My nerves were stretched to the limit as we reached Delhi airport a good 5 hours after having left Bombay.

If Bombay was cold, then Delhi was an ice box. It was 9 degrees celsius and I spent all 3 days in Delhi wrapped up in a sweater, swaddled with a thick shawl, stockings to boot. Only thing missing were the gloves. The first nite the heater didnt work, so Resh n I (who too like me cant handle the cold weather) spent the nite, teeth chattering trying to keep warm under thick blankets. And to top it, it was pouring hard with thunder and lightning (crazy weather!)

However, the morning's were beautiful as we were put up at a resort, the entire place was shrouded in fog, dew on the grass floor, and the most beautiful sight was that of a peacock dancing to celebrate the rain. The evenings and nights were however extremely cold and luckily we managed to get the heater working.

Headed off for home last evening and guess what, our flight was delayed again! A good one hour later we managed to board the flight and thankfully this time reached destination with no diversions. Thank God for small mercies! And the temperature is really fluctuating big time, coz I remember when I left home it was cool and now it's really warm!!!