Phanpy Drama

Today I got very stressed. I'll tell you what happened.

We woke up and went to the airport to fly from Vancouver to San Francisco.

When we went through security, Phanpy got held up. This in itself was not a new thing. Because he is so heavy, Phanpy shows up as dense. What usually happens is they swab him to make sure that there are no drugs in him. But at YVR (Vancouver international Airport) they tried to refuse to let him on the plane. Luckily Mama stepped into action.

They said I could have Phanpy on the flight if they cut him open and emptied his contents. This has been my worst nightmare since leaving Australia. Mama said "No way Jose!" This went on and on for half an hour.

Finally they had come to a compromise. They said I could keep Phanpy IF we left him in the cargo hold underneath the plane. While this meant I would be without Phanpy for the flight, Mama and I agreed because it was either that or have him cut open.

Papa had to rush back to the bag check in and register his bag with Phanpy in it.

With this solved, we headed out of security wondering if this would also happen when we leave the States.

We got off the flight a few hours later. We tried to find our way to baggage claim, but the airport was like a maze!

When we finally arrived at baggage claim I rushed to Papa's back-pack and pulled out Phanpy. The first thing he said to me was "I'm dizzy!" This was to be understood because the baggage claim is on a conveyer belt that goes round and round.

We then went to the Fiji Airways check in to speak with them about our flight.

We wanted to move our flight to a few days later than planed. We had been trying to get hold of them since the beginning of June. We had finally gotten a text saying they had tried contacting us, but they had not!

When we got to the check in there was no one so we now have to wait till our flight from San Francisco to Fiji.

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