onward and florida-ward

i am now in florida visiting gretchen and family! i had a long day flying (or not flying) but now i am going to go to sleep. my flight this morning was supposed to fly out of dallas love field at 9 am. we boarded and were told we would have to wait due to the weather. after waiting out the rain on the runway for an hour (i was sleeping onboard), we were told that the flight was cancelled - our captain had never arrived. so we de-boarded and i was told i had to retrieve my luggage and find my way to dallas fort worth international. my luggage arrived soaking wet and i got on a shuttle ($25) to dfw with some canadian hockey players. they liked my curly hair and wanted me to go to canada with them. i told them i thought my kids would miss me. they replied to bring the kids with me but i stated that i have 39. so i like shock value; is that so bad?!
anyhow, a very nice lady at dfw put me on standby on a flight that was already supposed to have left, but since everything was delayed she thought i might have a chance. i took the skybus thing to the other terminal only to be told that the flight had been moved to the one i started at, of course. so i returned and caught the flight! amazing! PLUS it was a non-stop! my original flight was scheduled to fly from dallas to austin to raleigh to jacksonville. the only downside to being the only person with a cancelled flight who arrived at their destination EARLY today was the lack of a cell phone which means gretchen was not alerted to my change of plans. so i hung out at the jacksonville airport for awhile and had the opportunity to chat with my family and tell my dad "happy fathers' day!"
it was a great vacation and now i'm just going to relax and get ready to go home! how i miss my kids!!

(by the by, this picture was taken by jared at the gulf of mexico and not in florida.)