Our Flight to Florida

We left Idaho at 7:00 a.m. October 2, 2009. It was a Friday and we were given airline buddy passes from a friend. Flying standby with a 5 year old was a challenge. It was an even bigger challenge hauling all of her food through the airport. Our doctor gave us a note for the airlines to allow us to bring Kennedy food on the trip. We made it to Phoenix and then our day went down hill. We watched 5 flights to Charlotte, NC leave Phoenix and we could not get on. All of the flights were full and had no room for us. 7 hours passed and I was starting to get frustrated. We were told there was a chance we were going to have to stay the night in Phoenix or Charlotte because there were no other flights into Pensacola for the day. We had missed all the connecting flights. They were telling us that we may not even make it Saturday! I called Kevin and he was able to find cheap airline tickets from Atlanta to Pensacola. We were able to get on a flight to Atlanta at 6:00 p.m. Kevin reserved us a hotel room by the Atlanta airport and by the time we made it to the hotel it was 11:00 p.m. We were exhausted and had no clothes! Our bags were in Florida and we were not. We slept in our T shirts and woke up the next morning at 6:00 a.m. (4:00 a.m. Idaho time). We ate breakfast and off to the airport we went. We made it to Pensacola, Fl around 8:30 a.m. We were 16 hours late, in dirty clothes, and ready to hit the beach.