After spending the night at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport — which is much less of a fun Viktor Navorski-like adventure, and much more of a stressful-bordering-on-hellish endurance test, when you’re traveling with a 3-month-old and a 21-month old — we’re finally airborne, 28,000 feet over Arkansas, en route back to Denver. And I’m online courtesy of GoGo In-flight Internet… and courtesy of the fact that I’m surrounded by sleeping girls:
Becky’s asleep, too; that’s her lap that Loyacita is sleeping on. 🙂 As for Loyette, she fell asleep almost as soon as we started taxiing toward the runway. Which is good, because she desperately needs the sleep after a very short night in the airport, but it also makes me a little sad, because unlike our previous flights, this time I didn’t get to hear her excitedly exclaim “Airplane! Fly! Airplane! Fly! Up! Up!” repeatedly as we took off. 🙂
Cute little elephant – indoctrinating her early, I see? (kidding)
Good to hear everything is turning out well, even if on a delayed basis.
One of the reasons non-stop flights are worth the money.
A missed connection on your own sucks. A missed connection with two very young kids is hell on earth and you never know what is going to happen with connecting flights.
Unfortunately, no amount of money will allow one to fly a nonstop route that doesn’t exist, which is what Denver-to-Buffalo is. (Well, not “no amount of money,” I suppose — one could always get a pilot’s license and buy a private plane. But otherwise…)
Southwest has direct (although not non-stop, but direct achieves what we are talking about here) flights from Buffalo to Denver.
Of course that’s just *one* flight, yes, only one available. But depending on whether or not this is a common trip that may be helpful information. 🙂
Hmm, good to know, thanks. I guess I had established that there were no *non-stop* flights and didn’t investigate the issue further, because the first battle when traveling with little kids is to find non-stop flights if possible, since takeoff and landing are the hardest parts. But certainly, one flight with a stop is better than two flights with a connection between them. I probably knew at one point that Southwest had that flight, but forgot.
Stranded at Hartsfield? My condolences to you and your family.
At least it wasn’t LAX or O’Hare, though.