Waiting in Airports

As many of you have heard we had a nightmare travel experience while on our way back to Ohio for Christmas. All in all we traveled for over 30 hours, had an unexpected over night stay in Denver, spent some time at Midway in Chicago, and by some miracle ended up in Cleveland.

Evan checking out the other kids camped out in the Denver airport.

Watching Elmo on the laptop in the Denver airport. We waited in this line for over 2 hours, by the time we got to the front it was about 10 PM.

They did put us up in a really nice hotel with the most comfortable bed I have ever slept in. This picture was taken in the morning as we were in a mad rush to get down to the lobby to catch the shuttle back to the Denver airport.

This picture is from the baggage claim area at Midway and it doesn't do the actual scene justice. Thinking about this still makes my head spin. We waited in this madness for over an hour, only to find out that our bags had be "lost".

To make a very long and complicated story short we ended up getting on a stand-by flight to Cleveland, and our luggage was waiting for us at the Akron-Canton airport.

Thanks Mom and Mike for guiding us through that crazy mess and getting us home for the holidays!!