New Years Strikes Again

New Years really could be one of my favorite holidays. It has great potential. Fancy clothes, music, dancing, drinking, smooching... But the last really good new Years I had was 2003-2004, and it has been a downhill slide since then, punctuated with dissapointment and even disaster. I really thought I had outsmarted New Years this year. Our tickets to Egypt had us scheduled to land in Cairo 2 hours after their midnight. Wonderful. I don't have to worry about making plans and I get to celebrate New years in multiple timezones with free airplane beverages and a friend!
But New years thwarted me again. Just before I pulled up to the curb at the Detroit airport Meg called me to say that Northwest randomly canceled her flight from St Louis and she was getting rerouted on two different airlines through New York! So much for meeting up in Amsterdam. So much for having a friend to toast with. So much for arriving in the country together.
And now Meg, on her first time out of the US, has to arrive in Egypt and negotiate customs alone, and I have to try to find her at the airport. Will her flights actually have her new reservations? Will she make her connection? Will she have diarrhea of the mouth going through passport control? Will I get a taxi that is far enough on the functional side of broke-ass that I make it to pick her up from the airport before her brain explodes? Will my hotel let me check in at 4 in the morning and sleep? A few more hours and I will find out what else New Years 2007-2008 has in store for me.

*Happy New Year!*