The Friendly Skies?

It's the day of our departure and so far it's been crazy. At 11 a.m. This morning I just happened to stop  doing all the little "to do" list items and when I checked the email we had gotten a notice from United Airlines that said our flight had been delayed.  But the weird part was it wasn't our original flight. It seems our original flight had been cancelled and we had been put on another flight. The big problem was it wasn't delayed for us.........it was going 5 Hours Earlier!! We had less than two hours to pack and get to the airport, through check in, security and to the gate. Quite a tall order. We scrambled to get our rucksacks packed.  Our driver, Charlie, was great. He came right away and whisked us away to the airport. Somehow we made it to the gate as they were boarding. Upon arrival in Newark, we found we had been bumped off our flight tonight! The girl at UA customer service was very nice and got us back on the flight. The problem we had was there were no seats together and no "extra legroom" seats that we had paid for.  So here we sit at 4:25 p.m. waiting for our 10:45 p.m. flight.  Then we just found out it's entirely possible they could have gotten us on a 4:30 flight. But UA never checked. So as we sit, I realized in the rush, I forgot a couple of small detail items. Oh well. Hopefully, once we get there this will be a faded memory to a great adventure.