We tried to go home.

We had a very long trip home. We went to the airport on Sunday morning to try and catch the 8:45 am flight but when we got there we were informed that it was oversold. Not a good thing to hear when you are on a standby ticket!!!!! We waited for that flight to fill up and sat and watched it fly away. We proceeded on to the next flight but had the same luck. We eventually were told that we should give up and come back at 8:30 pm and see if we had any better luck. The good news is that we got to spend an extra day with everyone. We went over to Kari and Craigs house for a BBQ with everyone so that was alot of fun. The bad news is that we went back in the evening and again watched all of the flights fly away without us on them. Peggy and Haley came back at about 12:30 am and picked us up and we went and got a few hours of sleep and headed back to the airport at 5:30 am. Once again we watched the plane take off without us. We finally gave up at about 10:30am and jumped on a flight to Portland. We figured we would atleast be within driving distance at that point. We finally arrived in Portland to find out that the flights to Sea Tac were also full from there so we eventually gave up and rented a car and drove to Sea Tac on our own. It took us about 3 hours to get to our suitcases but the good news is that they had made the original flight on Sunday morning so they were sitting there waiting for us. Yeah!!!!! We actually kind of had a fun time watching all of the flight leave without us and it made for quit the adventure. Every time the gates would close I would either laugh or cry and every time both Megan and Alex would look at me and say "it's not funny." What do you do though? That is the risk you take with standby. We had a great time on our trip and I would sit at the airport that long again if it meant that I got to go back sooner. I just love seeing everyone and spending time with all of the family.
Thank you so much for having us for so long and for making our trip so fun!!!!!!!!!

We finally got onto a plane. We are headed to Portland. It's not Seattle but it is close enough at this point!!!!!
Smiles of happiness and some tears of sadness. We were so excited to be on a plane and on our way home to see Mike and our friends but we were sad at the same time for leaving the rest of our family behind. In a perfect world we would all be in the same place but we know that isn't how it works!!!!!!!! We will be back soon for another visit. Watch here for updates.....