Oct 30 2007
First Lily flight…delayed
At 6:45 this morning my family should have been belted in for our first family flight. Instead, we were eating breakfast in the airport because we missed our flight.
We had good plans to leave the house at 3am, but that didn’t happen; I slept right through the alarm and it was Lily, who was crying, that got us up at 3:45am. It’s about a one and a half hour drive to the airport, but I knew if we made it out of the house by 4am we could still make the flight. We left the house shortly after 3am.
We were making great time, and for a moment I thought ‘we’ll have plenty of time.’ And it was only a few minutes later that we came to a complete standstill. We didn’t move for 45 minutes. There was a huge accident on the highway in which a semi looked like it exploded.
Needless to say we were already workingwith a pretty small time window and this accident pretty much destroyed any chance of us making the flight.
We got to the ticket counter to see if we could get on the next flight. “You’re already confirmed for the next flight that leaves at 8:10…pm.”
So instead of leaving in the early morning, we drove back home and are now preparing to leave for the airport for a second time today.