The Trip East

Sorry, this is a long one, lots to report.
So Brent and I were packed and ready to fly back east on Wednesday. I met Brent after school for our flight out of LAX. We had a rental car, from insurance, so we figured we would drive the car into LAX and just return it. Mind you, Brent got out of school at 11:15am and we had a 12:50pm flight - not much room for error. The rental car drop off was off sight, oops. Didn't time that well. When we arrived at the airport to check our bags it was 11:50am and lines out the door. Not a good sign. We check the bags and make the flight to Vegas, phew. If you were watching the weather, then you noticed the snow in Vegas - so much that they closed the airport! Our flight realized that when we were flying over it. At this point we were low on fuel and the closed airport we could get to was in Ontario (California, not Canada). Ontario is about 40 min from LA. We are stuck and there is an option to bus back to LA or stay in a hotel and fly out Thursday. Brent and I opted to try again in the AM...

We proceed to stay in lines for a few hours only to get to the counter and hear, all flights to Providence are sold out for Thursday, you can't fly until Friday. Fantastic! The one plus is that dad leaves near the airport, so we were able to spend some time there AND we got our bags back.

I called the rental car company because we were going to be late. They tried to RAISE my rate by $400!! I was coming two days later and you wanted to what?!? Long story short, I talked to corporate and they worked with me, ugh!

Friday comes and Brent and I tried to fly standby. Providence is expected to get 13 inches of snow, great. We arrive at 7am only to find out all flights into providence are sold out - so we can leave Ontario but we'll be trapped at our connection location. So we decided to stay on our flight at 12:55pm.

Our connection was through Nashville. Brent fit right in carrying his guitar. We are looking to get into Providence when they announce over the intercom "we will be grounding flight 2028 to Providence, time is unknown, they won't let anyone land at this time. More to come". The rental car company closes at 12:30am, we had a small window for error, again, or would get stuck at the airport. Needless to say, they finally let us out and we landed at 12:15am which had me running to the rental car counter (not really, but a brisk walk)! I just love winter traveling in New England!!

We woke up this morning (after 5 hrs of sleep) and went straight to Boston University. There was a meet there and I had some teams I wanted to see. Some old team mates were there too, so good to see them all. We went from the meet straight to the Cape - its Grammie Dot's 83rd birthday today. My cousins, aunts, uncles etc were all there, again it's been too long since we've all been together!! Was a great day.

Tomorrow - Patriots Game and it will be a cold one for sure!