Chicago Bound!

Ahhh vacation!  At least that's what I wish I was feeling!  Carl and I booked a vacation to Chicago a few weeks ago and the day has finally come!  Our flight leaves from Syracuse, New York which is about a 2 hour drive from home so instead of waking up at 1:30am, we decided to splurge and book a hotel in Syracuse.  We arrived last night and went to bed early, preparing for our early start this morning!  Now, I'm not sure if you remember but at Christmas time we flew out of Syracuse and ended up missing our flight because the line ups were horrendous!  We decided this time that we were gonna be early to avoid the anxiety and possibility of again, missing our flight!  The alarm went off at 3:30am and we headed to the airport - so far so good!  We got to our check in counter and the line up wasn't to bad AND we still had lot's of time!  We self checked in and were about to check our luggage when I noticed that our boarding pass didn't look right...Our flight was to leave at 6am but our boarding pass said it wasn't leaving until noon?  I must have checked us in for the flight home?  Or there must just be some kind of mistake?  We took our boarding passes to the front desk to inquire.  Sure enough, our flight had been cancelled!  Apparently the flight crew had gotten in late last night and needed more sleep!  And we were worrying about being late, ha!  Now we have EIGHT hours to waste at an airport with NOTHING in it and all I want is to be back in bed!  I could have slept in my own bed and had a regular nights sleep!   

Here is us, waiting at the airport!

Carl - calm , cool, and collected!

Leah - tired, hungry, grumpy, agitated, frustrated and just not very fun to be around right now!

Instead of getting to Chicago at 10am, we will now not be arriving until 4pm and still have a 50minute train ride to take!  I'm pretty disappointed that we have pretty much lost a whole day!  Maybe we just aren't meant to travel.  I know that things like this "make a better story" but I think at this point I'm ok with a boring story to tell!  It's now 8am and we've been waiting 4 hours, just another 4 more to go!