Our Adventure Home From Lake Placid

We had "an adventure" returning home from Lake Placid. We spent a pleasant morning in Lake Placid and even had our photo taken with the Protopopovs! The drive to Albany was also delightful. Then, it seemed everything began to go sour:

First, our plane was delayed in Albany due to the weather in Chicago, and then, in Chicago, our flight home to Colorado Springs was cancelled. We also had a small mishap as we boarded the plane, since the attendent insisted we took on too much carry on lugguage. That was very upsetting since we actually did comply with the airlines policies....

We had to spend the night in Chicago, which turned out to be just a "teeny bit" fun, since Jo Ann's parents live there. They booked a motel near the airport for us, and visited us the next day and also took us to the airport. We found out Chicago's O'hare has a "Kiss and Fly" area. I wonder if it was named after figure skating's "Kiss and Cry?"

To get back to Colorado Springs from Chicago took over 15 hours since all the direct flights to Colorado Springs were full. We had to travel to Memphis, then Denver, and then we had to wait 5 hours in the Denver airport in order to fly from there to Colorado Springs. We didn't get home until midnight on Wednesday night!

Joel kissed the Colorado Springs' airport's floor once we got off the plane!

We spent most of the next day recovering, but Dan had to go back to work.

We are so glad to be home!