Tuesday and Wednesday this week were very LONG days! Tuesday morning we got the babies up at 4am to get to the airport to catch a 6am flight. We got everything unloaded and dragged into the airport only to find out that our flight had been cancelled! I was seething mad for about 15 minutes, but then we decided we had to let it go and just move on. We were scheduled on a Delta flight at 5:30pm, getting into Seattle at 10pm. We decided to make the best of our day and came home and made a yummy breakfast and tried to keep the babies awake and reasonably happy until a close-to-normal nap time.
 |
| our yummy breakfast of eggs, bacon, & toast |
After naptime we took the babies swimming at the Y thinking that would help wear them out for our evening flight. While they were taking their afternoon nap, Michelle and I did some serious cleaning so that assuming we ever got to leave State College, we would come home to a nice clean house.
 |
| hands & knees scrubbing the floor under the table! |
Our second flight of the day was delayed such that we would miss our connecting flight to Seattle, likely leaving us stranded in Detroit. That sounded like an absolute nightmare so I immediately got on the phone to get rebooked because I'd much rather be stuck at home or even in Chicago where at least we have family who could rally to help out! Flights were hard to come by, but we did get rebooked on a flight that would have us spending the night in Chicago and flying out a noon the next day. So we rushed everyone out of the house and got to the airport only to find out after we'd checked in and gone through security that the runway was closed and that our second flight of the day was cancelled. There were no seats out of State College the next day so we decided to take a flight out of Harrisburg, about 2 hours away and just hoped and prayed that the freezing rain would stop so we could make the drive!
 |
| airport entertainment |
 |
| big strong girl |
So at 2:45am on Wednesday our alarms went off and we dragged the babies out of bed and tossed them in the car. Thankfully the roads weren't too too bad and we made it to Harrisburg just fine. Our flight got off without a hitch and we were very lucky that we got an entire row of six seats to ourselves in economy plus! The babies had lots of room to stand and walk around without needing to invade the aisle. It was such a luxury! And yet, it was still a lot of work and we just kept thinking, "how are we going to do this without all this space?!"
We had a nice long 3 hour layover in O'Hare which gave us time to get them a walking nap in the carriers and time to run around. O'Hare has a wonderful "Kids on the Fly" play area that the kids loved! They ran around contentedly playing for over an hour.
