ALL DAY IN JFK

It's been several days since we've been home, but I have to document for history sake what happened on our final leg home from LONDON.

We boarded the AA plane on time about 10:00 Wednesday morning--thinking that we were going to be home soon. Not so fast--we sat on the runway --AGAIN! for almost 2 hours before they determined that we had an engine problem and wouldn't fly that plane anywhere. They sent us back to the gate and gave us a voucher for lunch--thank you very much, but not enough to get really full on--and then wait for a 4:00 flight. Luckily, we didn't have to wait to rebook--we contacted our Travel Agent Jamie who was on top of the situation and had us booked before we got off the plane. The 4:00 flight soon became the 5:00 flight--and we waited another 2:30 hours on the runway because of traffic into JFK and approaching weather from the West.

When we finally took off @ 7:30 we knew that we would miss all connecting flights to Abilene. At this point we are so exhausted and just wanting to get home. We had to rearrange the kid's schedules again--Diane was always on the phone trying to keep everyone in the loop what was going on.

We laned @ DFW by 10:00 PM and they quickly met us at the gate with a voucher to the Gaylord Texan Hotel (very nice hotel in Grapevine that we've stayed at twice for a Marriage Conference---so we were impressed). To the hotel by 11:00 we were starved and made our way to the big Sports bar (the only thing open) and had the biggest plate of Nachos I've seen ( My heartburn later than night would tell me that wasn't the smartest thing to do)

They scheduled us on a late flight out of Dallas (12:45---which became the 1:30 flight) and then finally home to Abilene by 3:00. We picked up the kids by 5:00 and then back home..finally.

Thanks for keeping up with us during our trip--we enjoyed sharing it with you.