Burger's Travel Adventure

Burger was supposed to leave Baltimore yesterday afternoon to fly home (she was at gymnastics camp last week, and has been visiting friends and family in the Maryland area since Sunday). The plane that was supposed to take her home was stuck in Pittsburgh with the bad weather there yesterday, so she sat at BWI (the airport) most of the day yesterday. 8:00 pm rolled around and the plane was still not going to leave BWI until after 10. Problem is that Orange County airport (where she's supposed to land) does NOT allow planes to land after 10 pm - so she would have had to have left BWI before 7 pm in order to make it home last night. The plane she was supposed to be on was going as far as Phoenix last night and was going to leave for Orange County this morning.

We could NOT imagine letting Burger travel to Phoenix by herself and letting her find a hotel there on her own. No way. Hubby called the airline and explained the situation, and they put her on a flight out of BWI this morning, and she'll be home around 1 PM today. Thank heaven. Whew.

Burger was with my brother, his wife, and their 6 kids the night before last, and my Hubby talked to my brother earlier to ask if they could pick Burger up again from the airport, just in case. Then he talked to Burger, was bummed she didn’t get to see a good friend of the family while she was in town, and she asked that Hubby check if she could go to said family friend’s house to spend the night. She was picked up at the airport, fed, and given some company and a nice warm bed for the night, and while she was still sad that she wasn’t able to make it home yesterday, she sounded mostly okay when I talked to her before she went to sleep last night.

I hope she's learned a little about being independent. I wasn't too worried, because she was in a controlled environment, and I knew we'd have a safe place for her to stay no matter what. I am SO glad she didn't have to spend the night in Phoenix alone -- had that looked like that was going to happen, I would have called the one person I know in Arizona and begged for help!