rob’s place

Sometimes it’s really stressful and a pain getting all our stuff packed for a flight, cramming everything in, making sure nothing is over 50 pounds, getting it all in line, checking in and getting through security in time.

Other times you only get to do most of it without the satisfying feeling of making all connections, finding all your checked bags, and seeing your friend pick you up at the airport to go home.

Today was the latter. Apparently the Atlanta airport was having trouble with a little rain (not even ice or snow…just rain so they say). So as Patricia and I got to the Air Tran ticket counter at Dulles we found out our flight to Atlanta would be delayed. So much the delay that we’d miss our connecting flight.

Apparently there was only one other flight from Atlanta to Orlando tonight and it was overbooked. We’d probably not make that flight and would have to find our own housing there.

We rebooked for tomorrow morning and came back to Patricia’s mom’s place.

That’s one way to get your vacation extended.

We didn’t get a white Christmas in Pittsburgh like we had hoped. There was some left over snow on the ground but the Christmas rain melted much of it. So we hoped that the snow would come out tomorrow.

Instead we witnessed a Boxing Day Miracle! It snowed! But we didn’t do anything to celebrate. We weren’t even sure what to do about Boxing Day in Pittsburgh, PA!

More Christmas photos here.