We had planned to leave for the airport at 7 am, but Chris received a text around 6:15 am that our flight was delayed FIVE hours! Crazy. I climbed the stairs up to Misha’s room and told her the news so that she could go back to sleep. We said a quick goodbye to Kevin who was leaving for work at 6:30 am and then Chris and I went back to bed. Kristen came in shortly after 7 am to say goodbye, found us still in bed, and thought we had slept through our alarms. We told her about the delay and she went back to bed too. Our flight delay improved an hour in our favor, but still we had a lot of time to kill.
Kristen was up and we helped her get settled in the guest room so that she wasn’t getting woken up in the morning with kids getting off to school. Plus she liked the idea of sleeping in the “guest” room. Something special about that for her.
We dropped Kristen off to spend the day with Grandma as Candace had two kids to take to orthodontist appointments. Last we heard Grandma and Kristen were shopping, so Kristen was having a right fine day.
Not so much us. We got to the airport and our flight was still delayed. Our plane had mechanical issues. But there was also a huge storm cell moving in over Houston. The mechanical delay over three hours garnered us travel vouchers for future trips. Still we had lots of time to wait.
After asking one of the workers the location of Chick-fil-A, we walked to the international wing and sat for lunch. We finally boarded at 1:40 (we were originally scheduled to leave at 9:45 am) only to have two more hours of waiting on the plane. Apparently runways were closed due to the storm and there was a long line of planes waiting to use the few runways that were open. Not fun. And lots of not so happy babies and kids on our plane. Even after we were in the air for a couple of hours, the plane had to divert outside of Denver because of weather. What should have been a flight arriving in Denver around noon, was a flight that finally landed after 7 pm.
And the sad news? It was snowing.
