On the first day of vacation....

We are off to Utah and Colorado to see family. We woke up bright and early...3am as we had a 6am flight. We planned on leaving the house at 4, but ended up leaving at 4:30, still thinking we had plenty of time to park, get checked in and find our gate. Hmmm....didn't quite happen that way! We actually got to the airport in plenty of time, but ran into a huge security checkpoint line. We stood in line for about 25 minutes, when we got out Norman RAN to the gate. And the doors had just closed. We both stood there wondering..."well what now" neither of us having ever missed a flight before. So here I sit, waiting for our 4:00 pm flight. Not a fun way to spend the first day of vacation (we did make some friends and meet some nice people along the way)! Hopefully we will get out of Portland before the big "predicted" snow and ice storm hits! And hopefully today is not a vision of what the rest of our vacation week will be like.

PS: Just got word that our flight has been delayed until at least 5:30!
PSS: Things only got better! NOT! We finally got on our flight to Salt Lake at 6:30. It was supposed to be a flight that would take a little over an hour. Well, we got to Salt Lake and got put in a holding pattern overhead (the pilot told us that an aircraft had slid off the runway when it landed and they were clearing debris off of the runway)! I'm sorry, but I think there are some things a pilot just doesn't need to tell you! We then got diverted to Twin Falls because we were running out of gas. So we landed there, and re-fueled and then sat on the runway for about an hour and a half before they would let us take off. Eventually we made it to Salt Lake...at 12:30 am! We are here now, and hoping for no more adventures for awhile!