Happy New Year. 2 full years on the road already. It has been an adventure to say the least, with a HUGE learning curve! Some by listening to others advice and taking it and others by doing things at the time seemed right but turned out wrong and yet others by doing some really dumb things.
We spent Christmas at Brad and Mallory's. We left on the 19th of dec. flying into charlottsville. Got there without problems and had a great Christmas with
Christmas at the Rykals 2018
Coming back "home" to texas turned out to be yet another adventure. We left Charlottesville right on time and got to Charlotte NC. Right up to 10 minutes prior to departure everything was right on time, then a delay of 15min, then another 15, then an hour, then another 30. Finally, everyone on the plane and loaded, pushed off and then sit on tarmac for about an hour. All due to weather in Dallas. Then pilot announces that we can get to dallas by changing flight pattern but we need to get more fuel so back to a gate we go, everyone gets off. Then its announced that the crew has timed out and we need to find another crew.....ei yi yi...ok everyone takes a sit as we are advised to hang around the gate and be ready to go...then a short time later its announced that flight is cancelled...mad dash to customer service counter. we are at the almost end of line as we didn't move fast enough...American airlines re schedules us for the next morning connecting in New Orleans. ( the storm is headed that direction by this time) we opt not to take that flight and brad/Mallory book us for the next day at 4:30p and then book us a room at the Hampton across the street. Very nice place by the way. The next morning by 1130 we get a text stating our 4:30 flight is delayed by 2 hours.. ok we can still just barely make the connection in dallas. We go to the airport and try to get on 3 different flights to dallas on standby earlier. As did the other 70 people on the standby list. We didn't get on. Then our flight is delayed yet again to 7:45pm. Ok, we wont make our connection but at least we will get closer and be in texas. THEN the flight is cancelled. No explanation. And we were rescheduled for Saturday at 6:pm! (its thurs evening!) Brad calls and says get on the plane to Charlottsville and come back to their house and basically start over. So we did.. Brad then rebooked us on United from Richmond Va on Monday morning. They delayed us once a full 24 hours in advance and then on sunday night they changed the flight time back to the original...ei yi yi! I didn't know if we would ever make it home, but we finally arrived yesterday a full 120 hours after leaving brads the first time. An adventure yes, but one I hope never to repeat. Traveling via tires on the ground doesn't seem so daunting now. Our wonderful friends beth and todd had wine chilling and dinner ready for us last night. That was so nice of them!
Cousin Bob Novotney came for a visit. We haven't seen each other since 1995.
sunset at the campground
Mallory, Brett, Cash and I on a hilly, slightly muddy walk at Mint Springs.
gathering for drinks and laughter with Scott and Trish
Brad with his buddy Cash
Brett loves his video games!
Mallory liked her new butterflies from Mexico
this is the line for rebooking after the first cancellation on Wed. night.
We got notification of thurs flight getting cancelled at 6:16pm
but the departure board still wasn't updated at 7:14
this is when we should of gone. frustrating experience!
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