Made it to California--with a little help from one of my spirit animals! [View All]

Hi all--well, we made it across the country, but not without incident (ahem!) The first leg of our flight left our airport late and got into Newark late. Not only did we find out that we then had 25 minutes to catch our connecting flight, but we were in ANOTHER TERMINAL! (That didn't happen last year.) It was 11:30 a.m. when we got off the plane; our connecting flight was scheduled to take off at 11:55.

We had to take a shuttle bus between terminals, but when we got to the bus holding area, we found a brazillion people there already. The shuttle bus showed up (11:45) but those other brazillion people got to go first, and the bus filled up. A second shuttle bus showed up (11:47) and we climbed aboard. The bus started rolling, and I realized the entire situation was out of our hands. Still, I was worried about all the hassles we'd have if we missed the flight. If it were just me, I wouldn't have cared, but with my mom and my son...well, that would have been a much bigger problem.

Then I heard a "bzzzt". I thought there was a bee in the bus, but when I looked over my shoulder, I saw it was a huge blue dragonfly! It landed on the window right by me! Then I knew we were going to catch the flight.

And we did! I had to run to the gate and let my mom and son catch up as best they could. The attendants at the gate were paging us; we were the last people to board, RIGHT at 11:55. Two people had bogarted our seats and we had to kick them out. But we were ON the plane. We had made it!

...The only trouble was our bags didn't.
:rofl:

They're coming on a later flight. So now it's 9:15 but after midnight in my East Coast head, but I have to stay up because the bags could be delivered to my brother's house anytime between now and 2 A.M. :banghead: But we're here, even if we're here without fresh underwear yet. ;)