On Christmas day I received a text from my sister at 6:30 am asking me to call her when I was up. Due to the time change I was awake of course. When I called I found out that she had missed her flight. She was suppose to fly on Delta but went to the Sky West terminal because her itinerary said Delta via Sky West. Once she was told she was at the wrong terminal she only had 15 min left to get to another terminal, check in with Delta, go through security & walk down to her gate. This was impossible since it was Christmas day and the airport was very busy. We were all really disappointed that she would not be here until 9pm instead of 12pm. She then waited at the airport from 6:30am until the early afternoon to depart to SLC. From there she would have a 4 hour layover until she arrived at home.
Christmas day was filled with keeping ourselves busy, cooking, wrapping gifts all in anticipation for the evening for Shelby to come. Evening arrived and the texts started. Delay. Ok no big deal....."Holy snow storm!".....uh...might be a big deal. And we found out it was, after boarding the plane the pilot announced the airport was closing due to the snow storm. Back to the airport terminal she went. The airport tried to clear the runways the best they could and were able to get one cleared. Back on the plane again. She waited for the plane to be deiced and refueled. Wait wait wait. An hour and a half later still having not left the runway the pilot announces there will be no Christmas for you!!! Ha ha jk. But really that's what he meant, they were not going anywhere. A backpack, a stinky airport blanket and a cold hard floor makes a lovely pillow & bed at the airport on Christmas.
After a fun filled evening at Hotel SLC Airport but really wanting to get to Hotel Shoemake, Shelby choose to fly to Spokane instead of spending another day in the airport. One more plane ride and she would be home at last. Thankfully Tyler was able to drive to Spokane to pick her up and bring her home.
We were then able to celebrated our Christmas a day late but thankful that she had finally made it home.
Shoemake's vote for the worst Christmas ever!!!
*Shelby and I both contributed to the writing of this post. I think she enjoyed it. She needs a blog.
3 comments:
Wow... That stinks... sorry it was so rough. I have a lot of friends out here that flew home for Christmas and had similar stories... no fun flying home for the holidays.
Aw man that sucks! Good thing she got there safe. I hope you had a Merry Christmas still!
That doesn't sound fun at all.
Bad time to fly I guess.
Hope you still had fun opening presents!
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