Since we were gone for 10 days, the only way for me to get everything in is to take each day and do the major highlights. We thought that since we were going to be in Mobile for such a long time that we would be able to sit back an relax a little....WRONG! We started the week off running and never looked back. Now that we are home, I need another week to recuperate!
Ok, so let's take a trip back in time to Friday the 19th. I will try to keep this story as short a possible....It started snowing at about 10am on the day we were supposed to leave. Our plane left at 3pm. No big deal it snows here all the time, right?....WRONG. By the time I left work at 12:00, there was already 4 inches on the ground. We packed up our little car with 3 pieces of luggage, 3 carry ons, a stroller, and a car seat, a 19th month old, and 3 adults and headed to La Guardia. NOPE, when we were half way there, I thought I should check the flight on my phone...CANCELLED......WHAT??? Yep, it was a HUGE snow storm and the roads were awful...NO FLIGHTS were going out today! SO, we turned around to head back home. Jeremy, Paddy and I were all on our phones and they were telling me that we couldn't leave until SUNDAY! NO WAY...long story short we ended up getting a flight out of Hartford, CT at 6am Saturday morning. Because we were going home, there was NO food in the house, so along with all the luggage, we head to Stop and Shop for a night's worth of supplies. We get home and check Hartford's weather and call our friends who live in West Hartford. They said that the roads were pretty bad, but we were welcome to stay with them so we would be closer to the air port for our EARLY flight the next morning. So RE-pack car, give the neighbors our groceries that we JUST bought, and head to CT. But wait.....there is a blizzard remember...at least 8-10 inches were on the ground already?....so, the drive that would normally take 1.5 hours took over 3! Get to Mark and Michelle's, put Luke to bed, sleep 3 hours, wake Luke up, head BACK to the air port, wait in the FREEZING cold at curbside check in because in door line was WAY to long, find out Paddy doesn't have a ticket and may have to stay in CT, leave Paddy in CRAZY long line after being skipped by a huge jerk (that's a whole other story in and of itself), get stopped at Security because infant in arms is not on ticket, BARELY get to the plane, frantically talk to the gate guy about brother who says there is NO WAY he will get on this flight, walk down plank to plane in tears to leave brother to wait in CT for who knows how long, turn around as the airplane doors are closing to see PADDY made it to the flight! RELIEF, EXCITEMENT, EXHAUSTION! WHEW! It makes me tired just writing about it, but we made it to Mobile by lunch time on Saturday!...Let the festivities BEGIN!...(more posts to come!)
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