Thanks to this little net book I bought at Costco just before leaving, I will be able to Blog! So as most of you know there has been some "weather" issues in all of Washington state. We were set to fly out of Wenatchee at 2:50 to Seattle were going to babysit my nephew and fly to HI at 8 the next morning. By 6 pm Saturday after spending several hours at the airport tracking the plane that was to come into Wenatchee (again thanks little net book) , well it had pulled from the gate and pulled back to the gate....now from working for an airline..its never good to pull back to the gate. We drove.
Gnarly was the word I used! It seemed fitting for the conditions. The snow drifts were coming from all directions, making the visibility 0 at times. It got even worse past Easton..slow and steady, needless to stay we were so excited to have made it to my sisters at 10pm, the passes were shut down at 10!!
We got up Sunday I checked the flight status ours was delayed 11 hours! Again thanks to airline experience, I made my family get dressed and go to the airport at 6am. Was the 2ND on the stand by list for the 9 am that was on time. Note to everyone out there, when there is weather everyone is delayed, so even if a plane is 100% booked (as was this one) people are going to miss connect. We got on..so exciting to be leaving because the airport was crazy. We had to wait for 2 hours on the plane for fuel and de icing, but we are here. No luggage, and who knows when we
it will show up, but we hit Costco and are all good!
I'll send pics soon, got a wee bit of a cold and going to crash!
Thanks Mom and Dad for shuttling our car to and from the Wen airport. And thanks Du and Ian for letting us crash and bail, and picking our car up!
Aloha
2 comments:
You guys are SO lucky you made it out yesterday! Seatac ran out of de-icer last night so flights leaving were few and far between. And it snowed here ALL DAY and all night. You should have seen the airport when we went to pick up your car. It was insane... Ian was impressed with the way the "swedish meatball" drove (that's his nickname for your car).
If your looking for good beach in Oahu we went to Lana Kai (sp?) and it was really nice. It's tucked away and it really private. It's on the south east side of the island.
Its funny, I was thinking about you all day on sat. thinking how great it must be to be lounging in the sand while im treaking through the unplowed roads!
I finally saw my first snowplow in the tri-cities yesterday- AND IVE LIVED HERE FOR 4 YEARS anyway, have an amazing time and cant wait to see you when you get back!
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