Merry Christmas! We are currently not in Denver, celebrating with Emmi & Kyle; we did a giant 24-hour yo-yo trick instead, down to Philly and back: we got a ride from Donna to Doylestown, took the train to Philadelphia and another train out to the airport, and then a cab to our hotel, where Ben joined us. We took the 3:00 AM hotel shuttle back to the airport, which was a madhouse but we finally got through security, and we were actually looking at the Departures board when our flight went from “on time, gate whatever” to CANCELLED!
This was extremely frustrating and depressing to say the least, and also mysterious — huge swaths of the country were experiencing snowpacolyptic travel problems, but that didn’t include either Philadelphia or Denver, at least not directly… As near as we can figure now, all sorts of baggage had been erroneously routed to Denver Airport, on top of (and probably as a result of) all the weather problems, and they just went into emergency mode and started canceling flights. That’s all speculation of course — Frontier Airlines (motto: “Never Again!”) was remarkably unhelpful and unforthcoming.
Meanwhile, back at the airport: we booked new flights for Monday on another airline, best we could do but we’ll still get our (somewhat abbreviated) visit, and then we made our way back, train by train, to Doylestown, where we got breakfast and were eventually rescued by Shari & Rick. We were back in Bethlehem, exhausted, by about 10:30 AM and we all just went to bed for a few hours.
So Christmas day is Anne and me and Ben this year. We Zoomed with Emmi last night, and did a Christmas morning walk with Donna and John, and are now preparing dinner (and snacking). So Merry Christmas!
