Trying to Get Home

Before we had left the park, we received the news that both of our flights on the way home had been cancelled due to the ice storm in Dallas. As I finally got Katie in bed that night, Jennifer was on hold with our airline. She ended up staying up all night waiting for someone to answer the phone - which they never did. Around 6:00, we decided to pack up and make our way to the airport, so we could at least talk to someone about rescheduling our flight.

We waited in a long line, but at least we had a nice person to talk to when we got there. She got us rescheduled on a flight on a different airline, but the flight wouldn't be leaving until after 7:00 that night. We were all tired from lack of sleep the night before, and the last thing we wanted to do was to sit in the airport with our luggage all day long for over eleven hours.

Luckily for us, Orlando has a hotel in their airport. We decided to get a room for the day, and it was the best decision we made for the whole trip. We were all able to sleep a little and relax without being tied to our luggage.

Our new flight was a cross country flight all the way to Seattle. We were all separated except for Katie and me. She slept about halfway through the flight. She stayed in a good mood though. She just thought the flight would take forever and ever!

Luckily, Jennifer's friends, Michele and Ralph, were willing to take the lengthy drive to pick us up in Seattle. Otherwise we would have had to get another hotel room for the night because we were too tired to make the trip ourselves. We were so thankful to them.

We walked into our house at 2:20 that morning, and by the time we got into bed, it was about 3:00. Unlike Katie, I have a hard time sleeping on planes, so I was so glad to see my bed that night. A very, very short three hours later, Katie woke me up with a huge smile and said, "The sky's awake! Time to get up!" There we were…back to real life!

We had to do a lot of waiting while we tried to get home.