I didn't get a chance to see Grandma Chub during Christmas. Right after that she went in the hospital and rehab from an illness. I decided the day after her birthday that I really wanted to be there for her party which was Saturday, February 28th and would be the first time she was in her home since she had gotten sick. We had the worst flight experience ever but a wonderful visit.
We were supposed to leave Little Rock at 6:15 am. I had told Will we would be getting up at 3:30 am. He woke up about 5 am and said I thought we were getting up at 3am. We threw our clothes on and threw our things in the car and left. We got to check in about 6:05 am. She said I am sorry but you won't make it to that flight. She put us on stand by for the next flight. We went through security and I had a metal container of Think Putty, (Silly putty) in my purse that they found was very suspicious. We got through and saw the plain still sitting there and the metal gate to the outside was still open it was very frustrating.
We were able to get on the next flight to Chicago. I ran off to see if we could get on the 12:15 to Pittsburgh. The gate happened to be right beside where we deplaned, which never happens and the plane was delayed till 12:20. We got there about 12:10. He said I am sorry you can't get on that plane. He then told us they were overbooking the 8:00 flight that we were on standby on so chances didn't look good that we would be on that flight either. We looked into other options but nothing seemed to pan out. We were gonna fly to Cleveland but they said the rest of our return flight would be cancelled.
We finally were getting our tickets printed from one ladt for the 8:00 flight and another lady at the airport told the pilot everyone is loaded and ready to go. We got on and got to Canfield about 12:30 am. But had to find a store open to get contact solution and other things so did not pull into the house till cloe to 2am.
We had a great visit and Grandma Chub loved everyone being there and being in her home again. It was amazing to see how much she was herself when she was at home versus at the Nursing home.
Our flight out Sunday evening was around the same time as Becky and Jim's so we were able to visit with them on the way back and Becky was excited we traveled through some of the towns she grew up in to avoid the toll roads. I was a little nervous about our flight back because our connection flight was through Charlotte, NC and the east coast was supposed to get slammed by snow. We got into Charlotte and it was snowing. Most of the flights were getting cancelled. They gave us a discount voucher to get a hotel, but said good luck finding one and you needed to share because there weren't many because of a basketball tournament and if you found one the shuttles quite running because they were running off the road. I finally found a flight to Memphis that was still scheduled to leave at midnight. We got on it and a man was also trying to et to Little Rock so thought we could rent a car together to drive the rest of the way. We got on the plane and sat there for about an hour and they said sory we can't take off and gave us some cookies.
We then stood in other lines trying to get on a Little Rock Flight. We got confirmed on one Monday evening. And tried to get some sleep in the terminal. I think Will did a better job at that than me. The terminal was also freezing and we were wishing they had just let us sleep on the plane. Even the next day most flights were getting cancelled till mid afternoon. We were able to find a gelato stand and California Pizza company in the airport, though the pizza was not the same as othe CPC's. We finally got on the flight. And decided we did not want to fly again for a long time. Here we come Ireland :P.
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