Adam's finally home!

Adam was sent to beautiful Columbus OH this week for a failover cluster training class.  He left Monday afternoon to return Friday evening.  The girls did really well but missed their Daddy VERY much!  I spent much of the week trying to sell some of our excess items on Craigslist.

So yesterday, I headed off to meet someone for a sale.  We got home about 5:45 and shortly thereafter Adam called wanting to know if I was watching the computer (http://www.flightstats.com/ lets you track a plane live and we really enjoyed keeping track of Daddy).  Since we had just returned home, I said No.  Well, the plane left Columbus and about halfway to Memphis, passengers and flight attendants noticed a burning rubber smell.  The plane was diverted to Louisville.

So that's where Adam was calling from.  After waiting to hear if the plane would be continuing on its way or not (not), Adam was booked on a flight from Louisville to Dallas to catch the last flight from Dallas into Springfield.  After that flight took off, I looked up the flights on Flightstats and immediately noticed a problem.

Have you ever flown into Dallas?  You need a good layover if your flights are in different terminals and Adam was arriving in one terminal with his flight to Springfield at another terminal.  The problem - his flight from Louisville would be arriving a few minutes AFTER the flight to Springfield was scheduled to take off.  I kept a close on both flights.  The Springfield flight said it was going to take off a few minutes late.  Maybe....  So I took a chance and sent the girls to bed since it was their bedtime.  If he did make the flight, maybe I could get them in their carseats without waking them up?  if he didn't make the flight, they'd be much happier girls on Saturday having gotten their sleep.

Adam's flight arrived, finally, in Dallas.  He called as they ran to try to catch the flight to Springfield.  He promised to call once he was on the plane or knew they missed it.  He didn't call.  He didn't answer his cell phone.  Maybe he made the flight at the last second and didn't get a chance to call?  Did you know that the American Airlines website does not have any phone number listed to check if a passenger made a flight?  I really didn't want to get the girls up at 10:30 pm to go to the airport and discover he didn't make the flight.

As I dialed the general reservations number for American, my cell phone rang - Adam was calling.  He didn't make the flight.  They were booking him on the first flight for Saturday morning and he was heading to a hotel.

This morning, we got up and got ready for the day, slowly.  Enjoying a slow morning.  Then off we headed to the airport to meet Adam's flight.  His flight arrived early and we ran a few minutes behind (I apparently didn't allow enough time to get there).  But we got inside before he made it out of the secured area.  As I saw him coming, I told the girls to help unroll the sign they'd made - instead, they took off running at Daddy to tackle him.  I love getting to hold a great big sign by myself in the airport!

We're all really happy to have Daddy home.  Just in time to head out for Stake Conference meetings.

And I'm sure Adam is "glad" to have experienced so many new airports on this trip - Memphis, Columbus, Louisville, Dallas and the new terminal at Springfield.