We are home finally, bad trip getting home.

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Wednesday morning started out at 3 AM with little to no sleep the night before because my twin wanted to talk the night before. We get to the airport on time I check myself in while my sister stands in another line to check her son in who is flying standby. For those of you who do not know what flying stand by means: it is if the flight is full you do not get a seat. My sister works for the airlines so she got a free ticket for her son. The seats are available on both planes the first part from Seattle to Los Angeles with a two-hour layover then to Fresno CA. where my daughter is going to pick us up. I have two suite cases, so I do not have to pay extra we put one suitcase under my nephew’s name. My suite case I put in my name is full of my clothes the other suite care we put in my nephews name is full of family photos and antiques I am keeping from my Granny’s home. My sisters both where able to go to the gate with us because my older sister has her airport ID and my twin says she with the minor and the security does not know the child is traveling with me yet. We get through security fast because of my cane. We say our goodbyes and board the plane. We cannot get seats beside each other unless someone will move. The flight attendant asks a man to move, he will not because he says he is not going to sit beside anyone. He is sitting in a row of seats with on one so far and we ask him to move to the next seat over. He refuses and said he does not even want someone to sit by him. Can you believe that he does not want someone to sit next to him! Well of all the nerve. The flight is almost full and he thinks he can have a row of seats to himself. What a selfish person. I feel it is his right not to move he paid for that seat but not the whole row. If you do not want someone to sit next to you then buy the whole dammed row or seats. I sat down in the isle and my nephew sat in the middle seat across the isle by the jerk. Then a woman came to get in by the window. I asked her if she minded changing seats. Sure no problem. I thanked her twice. We pulled out from the gate like normal and we sat there, and sat there and sat there. I was wondering why we where sitting by the gate and not moving. Everything was set, we already had gone through the safety stuff and we continued to sit in like we where in line to pull out. We sat there for 45 minutes. Then that captain came on and said we had to put up to the gate again and they where going to open the plane doors. We had a “mechanical” there was something wrong with one of the fuel pumps. I called my sister who happened to still be at the airport. She was still at the airport and knew the plane had not taken off. She had seen it on the computer. She and her husband both work for American Airlines at Seattle airport. She was on her way back to the gate in case we had to get off the plane. Well we finally made it to LA. We had just enough time to run to catch the shuttle to transfer to our American Eagle flight to Fresno CA. My nephew had a seat and we boarded the plane and then we got going to Fresno. Yayayaya We get to Fresno CA. home sweet home, well almost home. I go to pick up the suitcases and OH no only one suitcase. Only my suitcase was there. The suite case that I checked in for my nephew is gone, gone, gone. It is the one with all the old family photos and the antiques now what do I do? I had to go stand in line like I was leaving for a trip and put in a report of a missing bag. It is now Saturday Morning and still not bag. I to word that bag we found and was suppose to be flown to Fresno yesterday I still have not heard if it got to Fresno yet. I will be calling soon. I am sick about it. It is irreplaceable items. How do you put a price on irreplaceable items? Have any of you ever traveled by plane and had a mechanical and had to get off the plane or has the airlines lost your luggage? How do you get paid for irreplaceable items? What type of price do you put on photos that are old from when your grandmother was young?