Delayed

The previous day I had concerned texts / phone calls from family and friends wondering if our flight status was okay. I brushed them all off thinking there was no issues. There seemed no big cause for worry. However, in the morning I got the cancelation text from the airline. I was somewhat concerned, although I couldn't think of a nicer place to be stranded. While I was on hold with the airline, Rebekah and Anson continued to work on their relationship. 

I had a mini photo shoot.

Closeup!

Anson

Rebekah

Look confused!

Anson

Rebekah

Finally we got the news our flight was back on at 5:30. We had several hours to play so Rebekah decided to embrace the snow.

Literally jumping right in.

Courtney introduced Anson to snow...

....in true Hawaiian fashion.

Rebekah's snow angel.

Throwing snowballs at the tree.

Eventually I went out to join her and thanks to Courtney's awesome gloves we made a little snow princess, complete with a leaf crown.

We came in, got dry, packed up, took one last group picture (Anson was sleeping) and were on our way.

I was not familiar with the airport we flew out of and it was quite a process to get to the gate. Rebekah was somewhat nervous but I broke it into steps - first step is getting our tickets, now we drop off our bags, now we follow signs to find security... etc. Once we found the gate we had to get seats together. I spoke to the man behind the desk about my desire to sit next to this snuggly 6 year old and he (hopefully jokingly) said he didn't know if he could do that. Rebekah freaked. I assured her I would be sitting next to her and told the man if we needed to wait for a different plane we would do that. He took our tickets and in about 20 minutes we had seats together. While we were waiting we played with the smart phone.

It was time to board but we didn't have a pilot. What is this with pilots being late? Eventually he showed up and we boarded but it didn't seem to matter. First there were delays getting everyone on. Second there was a sensor issue with one of the wing and they had to restart the system. Then we had to de-ice. Next we were informed that restarting the system didn't fix the issue and we had to go back to the gate to have maintenance come out and inspect the issue. By this time we were suppose to be  in Indy. I turned my phone back on and texted Don, who was already at the airport waiting for us. 

Rebekah was loosing it. Tears and everything. The flight attendant gave her some apple juice and cookies. I took out a book and read the entire thing to her. Finally we got back on the flight schedule and were able to take off. About an hour later we landed and were reunited with this guy. 

So sweet, the love of a little girl and her daddy.

Rebekah was completely exhausted and fell asleep in the car on the way home.