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[quote=Anonymous]It's normal to be disappointed when a trip doesn't work out as planned, but "crushed" is a little over the top - either your expectations were too high, you were too rigid in your planning, or you don't have the ability to go with the flow.

I've had two vacations canceled at the last minute - one the day we were supposed to fly out, and the other right after we got there (didn't even spend a night, had to leave immediately) because of unpredicted natural disasters shutting down the place we were visiting. In both cases we'd been planning for nearly a year. We took a day to wallow in the disappointment and worry about the affected residents, then made a new plan, went somewhere entirely different on a day's notice, and had a great time.

Another time, our flight to destination was diverted, and we got stuck in some random small town for the first 4 days of our "vacation" until the airline could get us out. Oh well. We explored the random small city and actually enjoyed it.

I got food poisoning on another vacation. That sucked, but it only lasted a day plus another day to recover. The rest of the vacation was still great.

One place we went had been really built up as this amazing place, but it turned out to just not be our thing. We laughed about it for the first day, then skipped out and made alternate plans.

Even if you were really looking forward to something, you have to anticipate that you can't control everything, sometimes you'll have to adapt as you go. [/quote]

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