We'll add some stories and pics from our visit soon, but our trip home from the east coast was the biggest adventure. We left Reagan National Airport on Saturday at 12:30 on the dot, pulled onto the tarmac, and proceeded to sit there for almost 4 hours. They claimed it was because of some air space dispute between the Washington Region and the New York region of the FAA.
We finally made it to JFK around 5, missing our 4:00 flight to Salt Lake. So kelly and I sat down to a beer and split a sandwich, ouch, 40 bucks! What a rip. We now hate JFK. We made the 7:30 fight to Salt Lake and landed around 11:15, got a hotel and got some much needed sleep.
Sunday morning we got our free breakfast and went back to the airport for our 10:50 flight back to Lewiston. Unfortunately, our plane was stuck in Oakland where they had ice on the wings, but no deicers. So they had to park the plane in the sun for 3 hours to naturally melt the plane. I'm guessing that is good for the water shed out there. Finally the plane comes in and we board, then end up sitting on that plane for 30 minutes cause they had 2 more people on board then were suppose to be on the plane. Finally they figured that our and we got off the ground.
We finally landed and waited for our bags which never came, so we went to the Delta counter to make our claims, but magically our bags were behind the desk. Not sure if they were on the same plane or somehow beat us home. We'll never know. So since it was open, we hit up Costco, for some shopping and gas. $1.31 baby!
The snow that we left on the ground must have melted and re froze and then more snow came on top of it. So we had to park in the street to unload our stuff and then started shoveling. I ditched Kelly to shovel out the drive way and went to get the dogs from the Kennel. The road out to the kennel was plowed but drifting snow made some spots a little hairy.
I got the dogs home and everyone was excited to see each other, Margo, Chester, and Thumper all stuck to us like glue.
Luckily it snowed over night another 8-12 inches and is still coming down, so we've spent most of this morning cleaning out the drive way the best we could.
You might remember this picture from December 22nd, 2008:
Today, January 5, 2009 it was like this: