The Great Northwest

Hi Gang,
Greetings from Beluga, Alaska. Beluga is just across the Cook Inlet and I am back in the same power plant that I was at a month ago. This time we are putting the generator back together, well we are suppose to be putting the generator back together. It is very slow here. What I thought would be a few day job will probably turn out to be at least a week.

The real story is getting here. I was scheduled to leave Minneapolis at 11:40 a.m. Something happened to the plane somewhere else that made it late getting to MSP. Keep in mind that I am suppose to get on a bush plane for Beluga at 5:30p.m. We were constantly being given false, I know that it is hard to believe, by NWA gate employees until they finally announced at 2p.m. we would be using a different plane.
I got on the phone and called the customer and told them that I wouldn't make that flight to Beluga on Monday afternoon. I called for a room at the Holiday Inn Express and they told me they had a couple of rooms left. Cost, you better sit down on this one, with tax - $276.43 for one night. Good thing I don't pay for it.
Back to the plane. We all boarded the plane at about 1:45p.m. We waited and finally, I know you are going to have a hard time believing this, we were given some more false hope o leaving the airport. After about 35 minutes they finally told us that one of the bathrooms wasn't working. There were 6 NWA people working on this one, gravity fed toilet. After 50 minutes on the plane, they finally decided to lock that particular toilet and we would leave.
Finally after a 4 hour and 20 minute delay we took off.
As for the rooms up here, once I got here I checked around and found out that the cheapest, Super 8 and Comfort Inn, are at $188 per night.
Anyway I did make it but having the customer provide a room for me in their remote camp is another story for another blog.