Although it was our day to fly home, our flight wasn't until later so we had the entire morning to be able to enjoy the condo! Jean and I took to the splash pad again where Tom and Cooper joined us. Thom worked out and found us too. We then decided to head to the pool. Teddy wanted to go to pool 1 while Cooper wanted to go to pool 2 so we split for a bit. The pools have been absolutely perfect temperature! Thom found $10 by the pool!
We met up at pool 2 and played for a bit in the pool before Rocky decided he wanted to play on the playground. I went with him while Thom and Teddy stayed in the pool.
Lunch was leftovers while we rushed around to pack. We were on the road at 12:30 for our 3:30 flight.
On the way we had a little toll trouble before returning the car and heading to the ticketing counter. All we had to do was check the bag because we had checked in online. We quickly met a large, large line of people and were informed that Spirit had canceled about 75% of the flights that were supposed to leave yesterday and today. There were lines everywhere we looked. Lines were merging with lines and people weren't even sure what line they were in. We were able to find our own self-tag bags spot, but then we had to take the bag to bag drop whose line was merging with the line to talk to customer service. We asked a worker by the self-tag line and he told us to go to "late check in" even though we knew we weren't late check in. Thom went there with the bag while I waited in the long bag drop line. Thom ended up talking the lady into taking our bag and we were off to another long line--security.
They were funneling everyone into a really long line which we found out led to walking by the drug dog. Everyone had to walk with a partner shoulder to shoulder by the dog. The guy right in front of Thom was the "treat" guy who worked for the airline and had the scent on his briefcase so we got to watch the dog react and get a treat. We then headed to the xray part where I forgot to take out all the technology out of the bags so we were held up there.
We took the tram to our terminal and found the Bahls at a restaurant near our gate. We enjoyed a drink before we saw they were boarding our plane. They stated they were boarding our plane, but mechanical was on the plane and we couldn't get on. After about 30 minutes we loaded and our plane actually did take off for us to come home.
The boys did well on the plane ride. Rocky was tired and restless, but did well. We enjoyed snacks and drinks on the plane. Rocky was so tired he fell asleep about 10 minutes before we landed. It was a good thing he did, because we ended up sitting on the tarmac for an hour because we were told "a lady in the plane at the gate was having a medical emergency--having a baby". We waited and eventually got to our gate, however, we don't think there was a medical emergency. We think it was because there were no pilots to move the plane because they are all on strike. Luckily, Rocky slept through the entire wait.
Once we got our bag we got on the bus to head to economy parking where we met people who were heading back to their vehicles because after day two of trying to go on vacation, their flights were all cancelled. How heartbreaking.
We got some dinner before hitting the interstate and the boys slept for a bit of the drive. The girls were happy to greet us when we got home. It was a wonderful trip!
