Made it home to Eastside Cats noonish on Tuesday.
My flight from La Guardia in New York to Detroit Metro Airport in Michigan was originally leaving about 9 pm on Monday night, but the storms that blasted the Eastern Seaboard had shutdown air travel for many airports.
First my flight was delayed, then delayed again...and more.
Won't walk you through it all, suffice it to type that I was confident we would fly out at about 1:00 AM, until we were told there was no airline staff.
As I was already at the airport, and they said 7:00 AM flight, I decided to stay.
Listen, thousands of people besides our merry band of Detroiters were stranded, and lots of people were sprawled out in chairs or on the carpeted floor, trying to sleep to dream of getting to their destinations.
The fact that we made it out by 8:40 AM is amazing; we were one of the first flights to go out in what is a heckuva cleanup process for all of the airlines and airports that were hit by winds, hard rain, and man oh man, the lightning!
Haven't pulled an all-nighter like that since I was in my 20's, so this lady still has it!
I didn't sleep; I had audiobooks to listen to, and access to as much food and drink, bathrooms, and long empty corridors for stretching the legs as a body needed.
Once The Hubby delivered me and my luggage home, I crashed for a handful of hours, then proceeded to love on Da Boyz until they'd had enough, and right now Henry sits nearby, watching me.
A selection of cat pics from our New York City adventures:
It's always I enjoy your photos. Good news that you made it home safe. And I wonder if Henry is trying to figure out why you did a disappearing act and then turn around and showed up again.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you eventually got home safely. The last time I slept in an airport terminal was in San Juan. The plane had a malfunction (very scary as we were already on it and going flat out down the runway!) There had been a hurricane two days before so there were no available hotels. Part of the roof had blown away and they dried the carpets with blowers and it stunk to high heaven. But like you, we made it safely home the next day. Great photos.
ReplyDeleteMy time for a "terminal sleepover" long ago, just
ReplyDeletehappened to be in your very own Detroit airport ... t'was lovely as I recall ... tho my recall is far from
good any more.