Oh the Joys of Traveling during the Holidays...

This is what our house and yard looked like when we left town late morning of December 23.

Since we saved literally hundreds of dollars by booking our flight out of Lansing

we ended up having to drive in some inclement weather.

After we arrived at Capital City Airport in Lansing, in order to park our car in the long-termparking lot, Keith had to shovel the parking space in order to park the car in the space! Just in case you are wondering if he's smiling or not, he is smiling about leaving the snowy weather for a few days. :)

After we checked our luggage in, we sat down and a few minutes later saw Jim Emery walking toward the check-in desk. They were also waiting for their flight out to Dallas via Chicago. Well, with the weather being the way it was, there ended up being over 400 flights cancelled in Chicago. We ended up spending quite a few hours with Jim and Marge. Fun times! Yes, we had a few laughs, even though we were all wondering if we would ever reach our destinations.

Our flight to Detroit was also cancelled, and we ended up leaving out of Lansing at about 6:30 p.m. They never did get out on the 23rd, but ended returning to Grand Rapids and flying out the next day with a different airline. They made it to Dallas the next evening, thankfully!

When we finally arrived in Detroit, we had missed our connecting flight to Dulles, so didn't end up leaving Detroit until after 11:00 PM. We didn't get into Dulles until around 1:15 a.m. Christmas Eve morning. We had been in contact with Jessica all day to keep her informed of our flight status. She was there to pick us up after we picked up our luggage. It was GREAT to finally get there, after a long day sitting in the airports. Thankful we were able to get there when we did.