I <3 Travel

[sarahmichelef]

Our initial itinerary had us leaving BWI for Philly at 9:05 last night.  We started checking flight statuses pretty early in the day - and soon noticed that our connecting flight which was supposed to leave Philly at 11 was delayed by an hour... an hour and a half... two hours.  When it was listed as arriving in Buffalo at 2:30 in the morning, I got on the phone with US Air and asked if they could rebook us.  And lo and behold, the nice man in India (I think - do they staff their Asian call centers 24 hours?) was able to rebook us almost immediately, leaving BWI for Charlotte at 8 with a rather close connection (40 minutes) and arriving in Buffalo before midnight.  The flight out of BWI was slightly delayed, making it so that we had only 15 or so minutes to make our connection - M grabbed as much stuff as he could carry and dashed ahead to try to stall them while TRex and I waited for her stroller (which was actually already up by the time we got off the plane - and bless the flight attendant who carried the carseat out for me).  As it turned out, we only had to run 3 gates down the concourse and I got there just as M was saying "I'm here to stall you and my wife is coming with our kid" and on we went.  We actually landed a bit early and were home by 12:30; I was asleep by 1:45 (having made lunches, packed school bags, etc.).

*tired*