Traveling Challenges

So we got back late Tuesday night from Kansas. The thing is, we were supposed to get in Monday evening. The story goes, we arrived at the airport at 3PM on Monday only to have our flight delayed by an hour and a half. So our 4:15 departure was pushed back to 5:45. Then around 6PM, we find out the flight is cancelled and we are scheduled to fly out at 5:50, the next morning. People, I’m still on vacation. And I am not about to wake up at no 4AM while I’m on vacation. So we pushed our flight back to 1:15PM (Tuesday), getting us to Atlanta at 4PM, then to Charleston at 6PM and finally home at 8PM, no big deal. So we leave the airport at 7PM on Monday having been there for 4 hours. Thankfully, the airline, that shall remain nameless, put us up for the night in a hotel and gave us food vouchers. Sleeping in and shopping a bit on Tuesday for some last minute gifts, we got to the airport at noon for our 1:15 flight. While checking in, the airline worker offered us compensation for our seats, in the form of travel vouchers, i.e. a free flight, and scheduled us for the same original flight plan as the day before, the dreaded 4:11 flight from Wichita to Atlanta. For some reason, we felt good and we took the deal. Imagine our dismay when the dreaded 4:11 flight was delayed until 6:30 after having been there since noon. For those not good with numbers, I’ll do the math for you. That’s ten and a half hours in the Wichita airport. That’s about nine and a half hours too long, in a very little airport, complete with screaming kids, angry travelers (not us, other people) and a set of twins I deemed the ‘creatures of chaos’ (Because of them, I am thankful we are only having one). Miraculously, we managed to make our original flight out of Atlanta. Because of storms, it had been delayed. So we landed in Charleston at midnight on Tuesday night, when we were supposed to be in at 10PM on Monday. Interesting couple of days to say the least. I thank God for safe travel, an understanding wife and just enough patience to get us home. Now for our vacation from our vacation.
Brad