long, i know, but read on...

whew. thank goodness i am finally home. yeah, so i was supposed to be home yesterday afternoon. but let me tell you why i just got home this morning...

to get to delaware there are a couple connecting flights. you have to fly into philly, then into this small town in maryland. so after our short flight, with no problems from maryland, we arrived in philly. we went to our gate and waited for the flight before ours to leave. well, their flight got delayed due to maintance. our flight was scheduled to leave at 2:15. it was like 1 something, so it seemed we would only PERHAPS be leaving a little late, if at all. so this maintance turned into a tire change. so they said as soon as they boarded those people we could get on our flight. so finally, about 40 minutes after our scheduled departure time we got on the plane. so we got up to the runway, and apparently it was backed up.



photo from rachael

and the guy said we were like number 40 something...the wait: 45 minutes to an hour. okay, kinda stressful, but not too bad. so there were some kids behind me...they were loud and kept hitting my chair. but i stayed patient and did not say a word. well, during this wait, it began to rain. so then they tell us they don't know when we would be able to leave. so bascially, to make this long, annoying story short, we sat on the runway for 6 HOURS!!! then, we were told our flight was going to get re-routed..but we had to get more fuel first. yeah right. liars!!! they took us back to the terminal, told us to grab our stuff, got us inside then told us our flight was cancelled. okay, so after 6 hours, annoying kids, and a migraine, i was still not home and stuck in philly until the morning. we had to sleep in the airport. okay, so we STAYED in the airport, no sleep involved. it was freezing and they were eventually, at like 2am nice enough to bring us pillows and these space blankets, which were seriously a peice of silver plastic.



photo from rachael

and when people were wrapped up in them , trying to find warmth, they looked like aliens or baked potatoes. BUT i am home now. and praise God, because i learned patience like no other.

so because of being up for over 24 hours, i am going to sleep. i hope everyone has a great day, especially my friends that are luckeee enough to go to 722. you better be thinking of me when you see louie!!!