2013/01/08 Tuesday: Airport Madness

We got up early to make our flight to Hawaii.  The morning did not start out well, and I worried how the kids would hold up through the travels.

Things got under control, we were all ready to board our plane.  Then we found out our plane wasn't ready.  It was broken.  So we waited, and waited.  They rebooked our connecting flight in LA to a later one.  Then we waited so long that we missed that one too.  The sting of the delay was lessened, just a tiny bit, by grabbing lunch at the new Cafe Rio in terminal 2. But we still needed to get to Hawaii.  The gate agent gave us two options: remain on our scheduled flight to LAX when it finally left, then fly to Las Vegas, the fly to Hawaii and get there at 2:00 AM, OR come back in the morning and fly non-stop.  We had spent about 8 hours in the airport, so spending 16 more traveling was VERY unappealing.  Also, it turned out that we would have to sit in first class on the non-stop.  It was a very easy decision to give up and go home for the night.

We were so worn out, just from waiting and trying to contain the kids.  They had taken turns having a nap in the stroller, and Henry was asleep when Shannon picked us up at the curb.  When we woke him up to put him in the car and told him we were going back to the house, he said, "But I wanted Hawaii."
As a thank you for picking us up, we gave Dallas and Shannon Cafe Rio dinners purchased with Delta meal credits.  Because everything is a little better with Cafe Rio.