Bonus Days

This is the second time I'm writing this post. Which seems appropriate since I was telling the story of how impossible it was trying to get home from Iowa, of course I'd have to write up the story twice. Wouldn't want to miss out on the opportunity to tell the story a few more times! 

We were supposed to fly home on the afternoon of January 2nd. We'd have a weekend in Connecticut to unpack, unwind and get ready for work and classes to start up again come Monday. Except our flight was delayed out of Moline, then it was cancelled, then it was rebooked for the next day, until THAT flight was cancelled as well. Finally we gave up and told Delta not to bother rebooking our flight until after the storm had a chance to blow through. It was too much packing and unpacking and repacking, and making tearful goodbyes, just to sit around for a few more hours. So we thoroughly enjoyed a few more "bonus" days in Iowa. We certainly made the best of our second chance, fitting in as much of the missed activities as we could. We're never really ready to fly home, but it felt better leaving after a few extra days then it would have to leave with our original itinerary.

Then we finally got on a plane Saturday. It was late, and de-icing delayed our flight by at least an hour...so we missed our flight in Atlanta. Zachary was quite pleased with our adventure, "We missed our flight in Atlantis, and had to stay at a hospital, but we are having so much fun!" We checked into a hotel, slept for a couple hours, then caught a very early flight to Boston, because we couldn't get into providence until Tuesday morning. But we made it. Our luggage didn't, but that is another story entirely. 

Home again, home again. Finally.