Chapter 2...Storm Storm go away......Poor Dawny just wants to get to Saba

Chapter 2...Revenge of the Maritime weather.....

well we arrived in Halifax with a barfy smelling car, barfy smelling clothes, a barfy kid, tons of bags, a dog, another kid and before the snow....what more could you ask for.....up we went to our room, which is lovely I might add, The Holiday Inn Express by the airport.....very nice and great service....we heard on the radio on the way in that flights "might " be cancelled, we both looked at each other and said, surely the trip blips are done and the storm is going to blow past? Nope....we were so wrong.....by the time we got up to our rooms, the storm started and was in full force....we can barely see out our window, swirling snow everywhere.....we made the dreaded call to american airlines and low and behold.....our flight was CANCELLED! we had a teensy weensy freak out moment and then composed ourselves to jump into problem solve mode....so the airlines it would appear is very booked this time of year so we had to alter our route somewhat....so instead of tomorrow morning direct to NY and then to St Maarten where we were to stay and explore that land for a while adn then to Saba the next day, we are not leaving tomorrow afternoon (weather permitting..not looking good right now) for NY and then off for a night in San Juan, Puerto Rico. We will get in tomorrow night at 10 PM and then leave for St Maarten at 7 am Friday morning just in time to catch our flight to Saba at 12.....so our touring of St Maarten is out.....so American will likely give a voucher for the airport hotel in San Juan, the Best Western....so I think great until we call and they absolutely will not accept dogs....so back to the drawing board adn apparently the only hotel in San Juan to take dogs is the Normandy....so we are booked in their at our expense (and it is expensive) from 11 pm ish until 6 am ish.....apparently we have an absolutley beautiful ocean view, which we won't see since it is night time! You would think that the story ends here.....alas.....it doesn't quite.....we attempted to cancel our reservation in St Maarten for tomorrow night and we cannot find it, we can't remember the name of the hotel.....actually Joe can't but I will say "we" for the sake of showing a united front!!!! he made the reservation and told me about it but can't remember where and I didn't pay a ton of attention thinking that he had taken care of it...so we are paying for a lovely room somewhere in St Maarten tomorrow night....and one in Puerto Rico as well....wonder what VISA will think of that?? Anyway the way that this is all going I am fairly certain that I will have a few more stories to tell you.....