Welcome To...Kansas City?!?!?

Yup. It's true-Rob and I are BACK in KC a few days too early. It has been a pretty interesting last 24 hours. Flew out to Denver on Monday evening-our flight was fine-all on time-rode first class. Arrived in Denver a little early-checked on our flight to Durango-On Time. We went to get a snack-flight delayed an hour. Ok-we can handle that-we were eating our snack when Mom called-telling us our flight was cancelled. Rob went to the monitors-I was still eating my soft serve yogurt-and sure enough-CANCELLED. The planes that you take to Durango are little puddle jumpers-hold probably about 20 people max. Well there was a winter storm over all of the mountains in Colorado-so everyone's flight was delayed. The customer service line was out of control. Rob was on the phone with United-as was Donna-I was talking to LeRoy about other alternatives to get there besides flying straight to Durango.

The lady talking to Rob was saying that all flights were booked and we couldn't get out there until possibly Wednesday night. We tried flying to New Mexico, Phoenix, etc. it just wasn't working. It didn't help that Durango had cancelled all of their flights for the last day and a 1/2 so everyone was still waiting from Sunday. We thought about driving-LeRoy told us it wouldn't be safe-and that some of the roads would probably be closed. We tried everything we could think of-nothing was working. United was telling us we couldn't get back to KC until late Wednesday night-Rob was NOT happy. I was hurting from walking around-and we were both super tired from being up at 5 AM. Finally was able to find a flight home yesterday afternoon-went to a hotel and stayed the night. Of course we didn't have our luggage-they said it would be at least a 3 hour wait to find it.

Flew home yesterday afternoon-went to baggage claim to get our luggage-and guess where it was...in Durango! So the luggage could get on the plane-but we couldn't. Donna said that they had 3 feet of snow already and were supposed to get at least another 12 inches. We were all so very disappointed that we couldn't make it. We had such fun things planned to do. I was looking forward to playing in the snow with Chase and making Christmas cookies-Rob was looking forward to going skiing and both of us of course were looking forward to good food and great family time.

So now we're back-still no luggage-which of course had all my stuff in it-and United is saying they can't locate it. So keep your fingers crossed...have a great Christmas!