We had a crazy trip back home after a fun weekend in STL. Our original flight was scheduled to get us home late Sunday evening, that changed Friday night after a tornado hit the STL airport and caused major damage. We got moved to a flight leaving Monday morning, still to have us home before noon so Adam could make at least 1/2 day of work. Well, the weather wasn't in our favor again.
We boarded our flight at 9:15 Monday morning, ready for the short flight back to DFW. In fact, as usual we were running late. Coop ate breakfast in the backseat on the way to the airport and Adam and I just planned on an early lunch at DFW, ha! The pilot had to detour around storms, circled DFW for a while due to weather and then headed to Austin to fuel up where we joined lots of other planes doing the same. Sat on plane in Austin for over 2 hours before trying to make it back to DFW. It is mid-afternoon at this point and no meal in our systems yet. We were blessed to be bumped up to first class after our first flight was cancelled so we did get snacks, Goldfish, Granola Bars, Pretzels. We were back at DFW but couldn't land due to bad weather, so a u-turn was made back to Austin. We arrived about 5:00 where they got us to a gate so that we could get off to eat. We got off the plane and headed to the nearest restaurant! We had just set down to eat when they started re-boarding again...ugh. So, off we went with dinner in our hands to eat on the plane. Fast forward 2 hours later and we finally landed in DFW at 7:15, make that 10 hours from the time we originally boarded the plane that morning!!!!
As awful as it sounds, it really wasn't that bad because Cooper was so awesome!!!!!!!!! He napped a couple hours on the plane, didn't have any poopy diapers :), stayed contently in our seats and was pretty quiet most of the time. Not sure what we did over the 10 hours as I didn't have any toys packed, thinking we were going to have a short flight home. We did watch parts of Toy Story a couple times and Cooper read all the inflight magazines. I got a few pics to document your trip.
Snacking on a granola bar. It was hard to get good pictures considering we all were about 6 inches from each other. :)
Coop in my seat, thank God for blanket, on one of my many bathroom trips.
The disaster at our feet included Goldfish, granola bar, magazines, a onesie we had taken off Coop...mess!
The stickers from Mamaw and Papaw kept us busy for quite a while!
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