Leaving for Seattle

We recently got back home from a trip to Seattle. It's crazy to think that it's already been over two weeks since we flew out there. So I figure I better get to blogging the trip before I start to forget all that we did.

So...

Jamie and I have some very very close friends who moved to Seattle. My friend is in the Air Force and is currently stationed there. We knew we wanted to go out to visit them, but it is always hard to find the money to pay for flights. Due to the possibility of being assigned to a different air base, we knew our friends wouldn't necessarily stay in Seattle too much longer. Then they got pregnant and had a little boy, so we knew we had to get out there to visit them. We decided this was going to be the year that we were going to visit them. At first we were planning on going in late spring to early summer (thinking that the weather would be nice that time of year), but then Jamie got pregnant with her due date around that time. Consequently, we had to move our trip earlier in the year.

Anyways, our flight out was early on a Saturday morning. We went to Jamie's parents house to have them drive us to the airport, so we didn't have to leave our car. We checked in, said our goodbyes, and went through Security. Everything was going fine so far.

Jonah and I walked around a little bit to pass the time before we had to board the plane.

Jonah was such a big boy, carrying all his own stuff in his own backpack.

Before we knew it, we were in our seats on the plane. We sat there waiting for the plane to take off.

Waiting. Waiting. Still Waiting.

The pilot came on and told us there was some kind of warning light on in the cockpit and that maintenance needed to come to check it out.

Waiting. Waiting.

The pilot informs us that the maintenance guys is on his way but is working on the other side of the airport.

Waiting.

The maintenance guy arrives but apparently needs to get some info from Chicago in order to fix it.

Waiting. Waiting. More Waiting.

The pilot tells us that we are going to de-board the plane while the maintenance guy fixes the issue. We get off the plane and everyone immediately scrambles to try to reschedule their connecting flights.

More waiting. More Waiting. And even more Waiting.

We finally are allowed to get back on the plane. We take off, fly for a while, and finally land in Denver, well after our connecting flight to Seattle had left.

We had to rush to the customer service desk to try to get the next earliest flight to Seattle. Unfortunately, the earliest flight that we could get on wasn't till the end of the day. So we had a lot of time to kill. We ended up just hanging around the airport all afternoon. We had some lunch and dinner. Jonah had some fun playing on the moving sidewalks.

Spending some time watching Thomas the tank engine.

Finally after a very long day, without Jonah taking a nap might I add, we finally boarded our plane to Seattle. Jonah did really really good on our first flight. But on this flight, he was tired and a little fussy. Thankfully, he fell asleep shortly after take off.

Eventually, we landed in Seattle. Or at least we were told it was Seattle. It didn't look like what I thought Seattle would look like, in that there was a lot of snow on the ground. Apparently we had brought our crazy Michigan snowstorms with us. Which only made our day longer. The roads were terrible, and it took our friend a lot longer to get to the airport. She survived the drive though, thankfully.

By the time we got to our friends house, it was 4am eastern time. We had been up for almost 24 hours. It was a very long and tiring day.

When we woke up, we saw this. Not a ton of snow (especially by Michigan standards), but enough to make driving a mess.

On Sunday we didn't really do anything. We just relaxed and tried to recuperate from the day before.

That was pretty much our first two days of vacation.