Escape winter

This week winter hit our city hard, thankfully DH and I had some plane tickets booked to the desert. We did everything right, checked in online, prebooked our cab and packed carry-ons only for a quick few days down south. 

Friday morning Mother Nature flipped the winter switch, heavy snow was falling throughout the day, the temperature dropped to minus 20 plus wind chill and the blizzard winds started around mid-afternoon. Our flight was set to go at 7:30 that night, all day flights were getting delayed, and then cancelled but ours said on-time. We waited for the cab to arrive for our 4:30 pick-up. Knowing traffic was going to be slow we had left lots of time, but no cab and at 4:50 gave up, loaded our truck and drove ourselves, the roads were getting bad, the snow was getting worse and still our flight said on-time. Get parked, get into the transport van, get stuck in traffic then finally get to the airport. Clear customs, clear security, flight still says on-time. Get to our gate, a different plane is loading when ours should have been there, delayed by an hour is the announcement we hear....

so we wait......and the other plane leaves, ours arrives and that's when the announcement of mechanical failure is made. No flight going out tonight. So back out into winter, into the transport van, back to the parked truck and back home. 

We find out we are re-booked for Saturday at 10:30AM. So we book another cab, go to bed. 

Saturday morning we wake to clear sky's and our cab actually arrives. It's a freezing minus 30 outside. Back to airport, back through customs, back through security and finally on a plane.

It took two tries over two days but we are successfully escaping this first blast of winter to land in paradise.