We left Wyalusing with Krystle (our sister in law), and drove a little over an hour to get to the air port. It took awhile to check in but literally as soon as we checked in they posted an hour delay for our flight out of Scranton. We were okay with this, and would still make our connecting flight in New Jersey to get to Houston. About a half hour later they posted that it was going to be over two hours more of a delay. Sooooo We stood in line to see about getting a different flight. The lady explained to us that the last flight into el paso TX is at 10pm. There was going to be no way to get us to our final destination that day. They were able to get us to Houston, but not to El Paso. They would not put us up in a hotel or pay for any accommodations because it was not their fault the flight was delayed it was air traffic controls fault. So if we got on the plane we were going to be stuck in Houston. We rescheduled our flight for the following day and quickly called his brother (who was just getting off work) to come get us and drive another hour and a half back to Wyalusing.
So the next day we make the same long drive, and check in as we are supposed to, and about 45 minutes after checking in they post that our flight was going to be delayed an hour. And about 15 minutes after that, that it was going to a 2.5 hour delay. We were still okay at this point, our new flights had plenty of time in between them and we were going to make it. After our long wait we were so excited to get on a plane and head home!!! We made it to New Jersey in record time and in plenty of time for our next flight! One problem...our next flight was also delayed about 2 hours. Which meant that we were going to miss our flight to El Paso AGAIN!!!!!
Niles thought we should see about getting new flights again because now we really were stuck!! So we stood in line at the customer service desk for about an hour. During this time we met some really nice people. Everyone in that line had a story and every story just seemed worse than ours. A trio of people were heading overseas, they missed their flight to hong kong and had to wait another day to get a flight over there. Once they would get to Hong Kong they would then be stuck there for 2 whole days waiting on a connection flight to where ever they were headed. Another couple and a single lady had two flights actually cancelled and they weren't going to get a new flight at all...so they banded together, rented a car, and all drove to their destination. All in all, our crappy luck just didn't seem as bad as getting stranded in Hong Kong for two days!!!!!
So our service lady, Jennie, was super!!! She looked at us and told us very loudly to RUN!!!!! So Niles took off running 3 concourses down. When he got there they were locking the doors!!! They were nice enough to let us on the plane even though we were late (not our fault though). Jennie got us on the last flight from New Jersey to Houston, and in enough time to make the last flight to El Paso!!!!!
We did have a 3 hour lay over in Houston, but we took it!!! After 17 lonnnnnnnnnng hours we made it to El Paso. Our luggage didn't make it, it went to Georgia as originally planned and got stuck there for a night. But it was shuttled up to us the next day, so no loss there. All in all, It could have been worse. We could have crash landed somewhere, Dorian could have puked on me in the plane, and we could have been stuck in a foreign country....but we made it! Home Sweet Home!
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You guys are amazing! I would have been flipping out, haha. Someday I wish for your type of optimism, haha.
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