Who cut my wings? (lots of yammering)

Oh boy, how time flies. It's been already a month since my last post. I spent two short weeks in Basel during Christmas and flew then via Berlin  back to Finland to continue this dance production we've been rehearsing.

But it was somewhat hairy to get home.....

09:00 Saturday
I woke up with a flu on Saturday 18th Dec. This pissed me seriously off. I was supposed to leave Helsinki on the following day, 19th of Dec with Lufthansa.
18:00
Early on that Saturday evening I got a sms from the airline telling me that my flight was cancelled. My easy Sunday in Helsinki flew outta the window at that second. Had to re-schedule everything and run for my shopping right then and there, before all the stores close. After trying to reach the given customer care number for hours, I decided to skip sleeping and just head to the airport to sort it out.

03:00 Sunday
Packing my shit and drinking beer.
05:00
Left for the airport. Met an italian guy at the bus stop, who studies information technology in Espoo. Services at the airport opened at 06:00 in the morning and by that time there was already an hour long line to the counter.

07:30 

I got my booking re-scheduled for 13:30 that same afternoon. Problem solved, get some shut-eye.

09:00

I woke up in the lobby and saw an Asian girl standing in front of the check-in counters of Lufthansa. Nevermind.
10:00
Woke up the next time around 10:00 and saw the same girl still there. At this point I got up and went to the neigboring Blue1 counter to ask if they knew anything about the non-existing Lufthansa personnel. Very nice lady told me that all the flights to Frankfurt have been cancelled. Great. 
At the airport there was no announcement whatsover on the behalf of Lufthansa to inform people. At this point there was around hundred people in the line to the arrival services.
12:30
Sms from Lufthansa apologizing the inconveninence of cancelling my flight. Me, and the Asian girl I took along with me (who also studies information technology in Espoo), lined up to the service counter from 10:00 until 19:30 in the evening, because there was at times only one clerk to sort out the flights. Pheeew, fever rising with uncontrollable chills. This sucked big time. Vaguely wondering why everybody seems to study information technology in Espoo and why they all want away from there at the same time...

18:00

There is a lady circling among the waiting passengers telling everybody should just go home. Yeah right, would you? After waiting 7 hours and there being only 20 people in line in front of you, instead of 100? NO way. Getting worried about my groceries I had in my luggage.

19:30
When I finally got to the counter again they booked me to yet another Frankfurt flight. Crazeeeee! There was thousands of people stuck in FRA and police keeping them in order. Why on earth send even more agitated passengers there? Anyhow, the clerk refused to find any other solution and gave me booking for the 06:30 flight the next morning. I suggested re-routing via Münich or anything, but no luck. She would have sent me home to wait, but fortunately I was stubborn enough to get me a hotel room for the night.
20:00
By the time I got to the hotel some ten minutes away from the airport, there was yet another sms from Lufthansa apologizing the inconvenience of cancelling my connecting flight again. Checking that my food stuff is still hanging in there with me. All good. Borrowing some space in the freezer of the hotel.

So, what to do?
- Go back to the airport where the line had reached the next terminal, estimated waiting time another 8 hours? Not cool.
- Go to the airport next morning and try to fly to Frankfurt to see how many days one can get stuck there, or at least go there and lose the luggage for undetermined time?
Not cool.
- Go to my mum's with my flu and spend the holidays there?
Not cool.

So, I went online and bought myself a direct Blue1 flight from Helsinki to Zürich next morning, for peachy price of 660€. Checked myself in and went to sleep.

08:30 Monday

Back on the airport again. My so called 06:30 flight to FRA was still standing on the field. I dropped of my luggage and went for a coffee.
10:00
There is an announcement that our Blue1 flight will be delayed for 2 hours, because German flight control won't give us the permission to take off. -Because there is not enough personnel to control the flights on the German air space. What the F**K? What flights? Nothing is moving out there? Go figure....

15:00

Finally on my way from Zürich to Basel... Pheeeew.

Tuesday

Sleeping the whole day and wishing to die to end the suffering of sniffing and couching.