This is being written the day after one of the most extreme travel days I have ever endured! Jackson and I were scheduled to go to West Palm Beach Saturday morning on the 5:30 am flight. Well, I was supposed to have gone to bed the night before early…that happened but the problem was that I woke up every 45 minutes until I decided to just get up for good at 3:30. We left the house at 4 only to see total mayhem going on…you see…The flight was cancelled and they were telling everyone that they could not get out of here till Tuesday. You can imagine how it might have went there at the airport but combine that with families traveling on Spring Break all of whom are barely able to process that information at 4 am!! Luckily, my old travel agent skills kicked in and I began to renegotiate my routing. They found me a flight that was to leave at 1:20 from DALLAS. So, I then went downstairs and rented us a car to drive to Dallas so I could catch that flight!!! Now I had to get some sleep. So I ran home and we took a 2 hour nap.
Time to hit the road…As we are heading out…Jackson says to me, “Mom, this is like The Amazing Race.” What do I say to that? I just love that I am doing this journey with Sponge Bob. So we drove to Dallas and I am happy to say that went well. No accidents. No tickets. Easy rental car return. Then on to the airport. Now if I thought OKC was nuts…Dallas was the insane asylum. Families stranded everywhere. Lots of yelling and cursing. No good answers from the airlines. Luckily, we did great. Confirmed seats and meal vouchers. Sounds like a perfect day….Except this mama was wearing down. Notice me laying on the airport floor.
So we flew…..and then we got to Atlanta. Ate some yummy food and got to go 1st class. Kind of felt like the reward for the day we had…Only catch was this: We watched The Blind Side. As I was sitting in 1st Class drinking coffee, Fiji water, and thinking I am super tired: I watch a young man washing his clothes in the sink and looking for a warm gym to sleep in. So, I am thankful for this journey and what I learned!