Olympic Ticket Update

Last Thursday, the 5th, Amy and I had the opportunity to purchase 2010 Vancouver tickets through an auction. It was set to start anytime after 10am est. Which meant be by the computer and not leave unless there's an emergency. So, At 9am our time, I had just dropped Alex off at school, went to the bathroom, brought in a snack and drink and of course an activity in case the wait was long. I had sent up the website on Internet explorer so it would not repeat the issues with AOL the previous night. And, then I could still email Amy without interfering with page loading.
So, 9:30, CoSport opened for Phase II of the ticket sales. You could tell the page was overloaded as it refused to load for an eternity. Finally, success. We were in! Only to have the next page stall and have to restart the web page. Ugh! Fortunately, we got a little farther in the process the next time and completely in on the third attempt.
Amy and I, of course, had a game plan. Any event available around the days of our Luge tickets on 2/15/2010. The only event we didn't want was hockey. Sounds simple enough. So, I went to curling for 2/16. Again, agonizing page loading times. But, not as bad as earlier at this point. While there was only one option left, I quickly put it in the "cart" and went to look at other options. Nothing else seemed to be available and I didn't want to surpass the 45 minute session allotment, (Although, I did wonder if they made exceptions for the pages not loading.) so I went to check out. A couple pages moved quite rapidly and then some wouldn't move at all. I came to the select payment option. Only one option available "Credit Card" and amazingly, the page would error out. I think I logged out, refreshed the page or went back to the beginning of the cart about 30 times. Just as I was about to slam my head on the desk.... it went forward. All Right, Here we go!!! I entered my information and double checked everything. Went to the next page, double checked credit card, expiration date, my billing address, and Amy's shipping address. All good. Next page, rechecked everything. This was the last page before submit. Almost there. I'm now ready to hit submit and do the happy dance. The next page took a total of 3 seconds to load. Amazing! Only to tell me my credit card had been denied. WHAT?!?!? With the denial, the tickets are placed back into the pool and you are logged off. OMG, you've got to be kidding me?! I didn't realize at first that I was logged off and by time I did, the only tickets left were.... You guessed it.... Hockey! And Women's Hockey at that. Oh, and for the following week. Now as I'm trying to email Amy to let her know some how I lost the tickets, AOL freezes and won't let me do anything. (I hate our computer right now, but that's an entirely different story.) So, I am beyond upset. I could understand if I did something wrong and it told me what. But, there was no explanation. I have spent 2 1/2 hours trying to get these tickets and lost them just like that. And then Amy called and made it all better by saying "If worse comes to worse and we can't get other tickets, we can always sell the others and go someplace warm." LOL I love her!
Well, that brings me to today. I got a call from Amy at 3:05. It's not normal for her to call during the day and especially not my cell phone while I'm at work. She had sent me an email at 1pm today. Usually, I am right on top of my email but today was working on a project and didn't get back to AOL. (Before you get exciting thinking it was a work related project, fear not.) I logged into AOL to see a forwarded email from CoSport... Confirming our ticket purchase made on 2/5 for tickets to Curling on 2/16/10!!!!! Woo Hoo! Now, I'm even more confused as to what happened but, at least I saw the email before I looked at my credit card online. Wouldn't that have been interesting!?!?!?
And, just in case you were wondering what project I worked on while waiting for the pages to load..... I finished my journaling for both my 2007 and 2008 Vegas scrapbooks. Woo Hoo! So, at least I made good use of my time. :)
Next on the Olympic journey - Hotel.