Ghoulies are getting stronger hearts, bodies, and minds in January! (Page 12)

ceilidh - 2011-01-09 2:32 PM

That just makes me laugh.

ceilidh - 2011-01-09 2:33 PM I'll be back later. Gotta go get some christmas from outside to inside. It is way more fun putting it up than taking it down.

kns57 - 2011-01-10 6:50 AM Atlanta is snowed in!!!

kns57 - 2011-01-10 6:46 AM Good morning Anne

kns57 - 2011-01-10 6:59 AM Okay, here is my traveling saga.

Original flight was scheduled for noon on Sunday to arrive in ATL by 7pm.
Saturday night after playing PowerGrid, we decided to print out our boarding passes.  Got on the computer to see our flight was cancelled.  WTF!!!  No phone call or emails letting us know this.  Our itinary showed that they had rescheduled us to a red eye flight on Tuesday night with two layovers prior to getting to ATL on Wednesday (3 days later than our original flight).

So, hubby got on the phone with the airline, and I got on another phone to try to find a car company that would pick us up and take us to the airport (we would have to get up 4 sleeping grandchildren, put them in a cold car in the middle of the night unless we could find either another driver or a babysitter.) because it is now 12:30 am Sunday morning.

We found a wonderful friend of my daughters who came over to be in the house with the kids while our daughter drove us to the airport (2.5 hour round trip for her).  We got ourselves onto a 5:30am flight to Detroit, with a 2 hour layover, then a flight to ATL.  We got in only about 30 minutes earlier than our original flight would have gotten in.

Why the heck did the airlines cancel flights in anticipation of a snow storm so far out?  Our original flight would have made it in NO PROBLEM.  In fact the snow did not start until about 10pm.  We would have landed at 7pm. 

The really sad part of the story is that when the kids went to bed, we did not say goodnight to them for we thought we would still have the morning with them.  Instead we sneak  out in the middle of the night with no goodbyes.  I'm so sad about that.

And now we are snowed in and get to have another day of vacation, courtesy of the snow.  Yeah!

Oh, and in case you did not figure it out, I went with no sleep from 6am on Saturday morning until 9pm Sunday night. 

ceilidh - 2011-01-10 8:18 AM We have about 6 inches of snow. That is a lot for us.

Kendra, so sorry about the flight mess up and not getting to say by to your grandiose grandkids. That sucks.

ironannekidd - 2011-01-10 8:34 AM

We have just enough snow to be a tease. The driveway is covered, the yard not so much.

I hope we get more this week. Yes, I'm still running a fever.

ceilidh - 2011-01-10 8:46 AM

Fevers suck. Take care of yourself. I am STILL not feeling great. It has been 3 weeks. I am ready to feel better. If I had taken it seriously when I first got sick, maybe I'd be better by now?

ironannekidd - 2011-01-10 8:52 AM

They've been low grade, and other than feverish, and a little sluggish, I don't feel bad.

On the way in this morning I was listening to the weather. Again we have one of those this is what we think is going to happen, but... scenarios. We could get a little, if the 2 storms that could hit us merge, we could get dumped on. I already told my boss this morning I don't drive in the snow.

It is supposed to start snowing tomorrow afternoon. I'm only working until noon, so that's good. My husband has the day off so he is pulling the kids out of school at noon and we are going to the farm show. They all like to look at the tractors, we all like the animals and the food.

ceilidh - 2011-01-10 8:55 AM

Good for you for not driving in the snow. My DH will be jealous of the tractor show. He is silly for them. I'll take the animals and the food.

ironannekidd - 2011-01-10 9:04 AM

I'll share my milkshake with you.
They usually have it work out that there are ducks, or chicks, or something being born this week. It also usually seems there is a calf, or some piglets born there, too. It's a lot of walking, but we enjoy it.

ceilidh - 2011-01-10 9:12 AM Crud! the power is already flickering. I am going to go do the last laundry before it goes out for good.

Talk at you all later.. as long as I have power and DSL.