Well, Matt and I are currently stuck at the airport. How fun!
No, not really.
How we've spent this weekend:
Saturday: Watch the entire season of Mad Men. Love snow.
Saturday night: church gets canceled, feel sad, start watching Friends.
Sunday morning: wake up to more snow, start to panic about flying out in less than 24 hours.
Sunday afternoon: drive to the store and get chains, stop in at New Seasons for soup samples. SO GLAD to get out of house.
Sunday night: debate when to leave for the airport to catch our 6am flight. Decide to stay the night with our friends' Peter and Jessica, who live very close to airport.
9pm: drive 30mph across town. Worry about getting stuck in neighborhood. On 1-84 overpass. On 39th. And Sandy. And 66th. Portland is empty and feels weird and beautiful. Barely make it to the Stitcher's.
11pm: Flight still on schedule. Go to sleep.
4am: Flight now delayed 3 hours because the crew needs sleep. Told to go to airport anyway.
4:30am: thankful we stayed at our friends' house. snow is coming down hard. matt has to get out at every intersection to scrape off ice.
5am: make it to airport parking lot. AWFUL. Snow drifts are several feet high, can't drive. SUV passes, so we follow their tire marks. Park, get out, realize if our flight gets canceled, we are, HOLY HELL, stuck at the airport. Our car isn't budging.
5:30am: check in is smooth, flight to take off at 9:15. decide to throw some extra clothes and toothbrush in my carry-on just in case. eat breakfast.
6:30am: find a quiet gate and fall asleep. pray nobody steals our bags, MUST SHUT MY EYES JESUS, PLEASE WATCH THE BAGS.
8:15am: alarm goes off, bags are still safe. go to gate. flight is delayed until 10am.
9:15: flight is now delayed until noon.
And here we wait. I told Matt it's a good thing we're so excited to see family, otherwise THIS WOULD NOT BE WORTH IT.
But hey! Merry Christmas, y'all! And pray we fly out soon!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
4 comments:
Mad Men is surely the reason you were loving the snow initially. Mad Men makes me love everything. Most of all Don Draper.
Gosh. I hope you guys make it out okay. And didn't hear about what happened in Denver over the weekend.
Merry Christmas.
You are brave. Bryan and I are supposed to leave tonight for Spokane and it isn't happening. Southwest already canceled our flight. What a bummer!
Hi! Hopefully you made it to Texas alright, I'm assuming you did. Happy three-days-after-Christmas!
I love Anne Lamott SO MUCH! I agree that this book seems way more political, but I am seeing so much good in it too. I feel like I'm a spiritual sponge right now, and am just soaking up anything there is to get.
Post a Comment