Here I am with one double stroller, two backpacks, two car seats, and one very very large rolling suitcase (it's a juggling act to be sure and quite a sight to behold). Pregnant. Two children. Alone.
My first flight out of Fresno to Denver was canceled due to fog. It was really handy of them to tell us that AFTER the time it was supposed to leave. So I got up at 3:30 am, got to the airport, got through the longest check-in line in the face of the planet, sat around until 6 am only to find out flights there for the day were, for the most part, canceled. Oh, did I forget to mention that Tone was stuck in San Francisco because his flight didn't get in the night before because of that same fog? So he slept on a couch in the crew room of the San Francisco airport for a couple hours because he couldn't get home to help me. Yes, I am alone. Pregnant. With two little kids. Lovely. Tone did not know our flight was canceled until he was already on his airplane from San Francisco to Denver and waiting to take off. Yes, we were supposed to meet up in Denver getting in at the same time. Fail.
So plan B: i.e. drive to San Francisco, 3 hours away. So...I run back downstairs, and go through a whole fiasco to get my bags back so I can be on my way in the car. If I don't hurry, I'll miss the flight in San Francisco. 20 minutes later, I have my bags, do the whole juggling act again to get to the car, load the car, get gas, and drive like a maniac to San Francisco to get to the airport in time. Now this is a fun part. Hunter gets car sick in major traffic going over the San Mateo bridge. Umm, you can't exactly pull over there with no shoulder and a huge bridge going over the bay. So we do a lot a driving with the back window down smelling all those car fumes from the 8 lanes of traffic around us.
Now, we have to park at the Embassy Sweets Hotel because that's where they have the pilots stay on their overnights in San Francisco and that equals FREE parking. Totally worth it. Parking is free, but we have to catch a shuttle to the airport. I arrive at the hotel to see the shuttle parked out front. So I park, jam the kids into the stroller, grab the bags, run to the lobby, only to see the shuttle driving away. So another 20 minute waiting for the next shuttle.....
Did I mention I am pregnant? With two little kids. Alone.
Anyways, I finally make it to the airport, check bags again, rush to the gate just in the knick of time....only to find...the flight is delayed. Wait an hour...only to discover...THAT flight is now canceled too.
I find out there's another flight to Denver leaving at a nearby gate. But because they dawdled around figuring out if they could put passengers from the canceled flight on the plane, they don't have time to process me, and that flight leaves without me. And with empty seats where I could have sat.
Tone calls. Here's where having access to inside information is great (pilots have access to the website that gives all the information on flights that they don't ever tell you).
There's another flight to Denver leaving in a half hour. It's not on the board and I can't find the gate. Finally, I figure it out, and realize it's a new flight they just made up to be filled with passengers from other canceled flights in the airport. I wait and wait and wait to see if they'll let me on, and manage to snag the last three seats. In first class no less. Is something finally going me way!?
It's 3:00pm by now, and Ainsley has had it. But does she sleep? No. For the next 2 hours on the flight she throws a complete fit. In first class. I am hated by all around me. She falls asleep finally right as the plane is landing and I have to wake her up.
Did I mention I am pregnant? With two little kids? Alone.
Never did I feel such relief when I walk off the plane and see Tone standing there waiting for me at the gate. Mind you, he has been waiting for us since 8:00am when his flight DID arrive in Denver. It is now 6:00pm. He's still in his uniform from the day before, unshowered, bored out of his mind, and looking beautiful to me.
Well, our next flight to Springfield, Missouri, doesn't leave until 8 pm, so we have two hours to wait. With two grumpy kids. We went to the highly overpriced airport McDonalds. Desperate times ya know?
We get on the flight to Springfield, and arrive at 10 pm to see Tone's parents waiting for us. Oh happy day! But we still have an hour drive to get to their house. We walk outside to 10 degree frigid cold and see....they brought their tiny little car. At this point not only do we have the baggage I have mentioned before, but we have added Tone's baggage, which is a laptop, flight bag, and small suitcase. Visions of clowns in tiny little cars were flashing through my head. We manage to jam everything in it with the kids feet propped up on suitcases in front of them. Jam the kids and one adult in the back, and three adults on the small front seat in the front shoulder to shoulder, and drive on curvy, curvy roads for an hour. I am in the backseat, sleep deprived, and feeling very sick at this point. Needless to say, though Mom and Dad were so happy to see us, and us them, they wanted to socialize for a while before bed, and I had to pass. Sorry guys. We'll catch up in the morning.
Another good memory is one of Aubrey and Ainsley. I put the kids to sleep that night in their cousin's room, and I found Ainsley and Aubrey curled up on the floor around each other fast asleep. A book was above their heads because they had fallen asleep reading to each other. It was too dark to get a picture, but that's a memory I'll carry forever.
The kids got so much Christmas toys from the grandparents, we had to add a whole big box to our luggage to cart it home in. Shockingly, they managed to fit it in the teeny tiny car on the way back to the airport. The trip home was uneventful with two flawless flights from Springfield to Denver to San Francisco.
Hunter misses his grandparents and tells me everyday this week that he wishes he was there again. It might be something to do with the fact they got him cowboy boots and a fake rifle for Christmas. I don't know....just guessing. All I know is, he hasn't taken them off, except to sleep, in the week since.
that log cabin is to die for. how fun!
ReplyDelete[url=http://vioperdosas.net/][img]http://sapresodas.net/img-add/euro2.jpg[/img][/url]
ReplyDelete[b]cheap flight software, [url=http://vioperdosas.net/]buy discounted software[/url]
[url=http://vioperdosas.net/]educational software typing[/url] microsoft student discount software adobe photoshop cs4 extended trial cracks
nero 9 retail torrent [url=http://vioperdosas.net/]price finder software[/url] cheap software developers
[url=http://sapresodas.net/]adobe indesign software[/url] Pro 10 Advanced Mac
[url=http://sapresodas.net/]where to buy photoshop for[/url] microsoft office 2007 academic discount
nero 7 serial [url=http://vioperdosas.net/]free windows xp[/url][/b]
[url=http://www.kfarbair.com][img]http://www.kfarbair.com/_images/logo.png[/img][/url]
ReplyDeleteבית מלון [url=http://www.kfarbair.com]כפר בעיר[/url] - אווירה כפרית, [url=http://www.kfarbair.com/about.html]חדרים[/url] מרווחים, שירות חדרים, אינטימיות, שלווה, [url=http://kfarbair.com/services.html]שקט[/url] . אנו מציעים שירותי אירוח מגוונים כמו כן ישנו במקום שירות חדרים הכולל [url=http://www.kfarbair.com/eng/index.html]סעודות רומנטיות[/url] במחירים מיוחדים אשר יוגשו ישירות לחדרכם!
לפרטים נוספים אנא גשו לאתרנו - [url=http://kfarbair.com]כפר בעיר[/url] [url=http://www.kfarbair.com/contact.html][img]http://www.kfarbair.com/_images/apixel.gif[/img][/url]