The Trip Down South... Way South!

So... I haven't been around for awhile because I was recovering from my trip to my BIL's wedding in Jackson, Mississippi. Let me start by telling you how the weekend was supposed to go... and then I will tell you how it all went down.

We were scheduled to fly out of Boise at 7:40 am to arrive in Baton Rouge, LA at 3:30 pm. Then we were going to drive to Jackson with "Unca Blad" and go to "Unca Kiss'" house for a special family dinner of all the Shaw's in town -- including meeting our new SIL! Then we would hang out there for the evening, etc. Friday morning we would be visiting some more, as well as working on flower arrangements and general prep for the Rehearsal Dinner. Then we would meet up and go to the Rehearsal later on, followed by the dinner, and then we would all hang out somewhere and go back to Chris' house to sleep. Saturday morning=wedding. Saturday afternoon=visiting. Saturday evening was to be taken up by driving back to Baton Rouge, staying with a friend of the groom's family... and then going to the airport after catching some sleep at flying out at 5:45 am.

Here's what actually happened: we sat in the Boise Airport for FOUR HOURS. We finally left around 11:00am which caused us to miss our connecting flight to BR. We then spent EIGHT HOURS in the Denver airport with some silly little food vouchers and our DVD player. Then we flew to BR and arrived at midnight. 81/2 hours late. No ride to Jackson now! So they put us up in a Hilton hotel. Very nice. Would have loved to stay there much longer!!!

Friday morning we wake up after going to bed at 1:00 am--at 6:00 am. We eat another free meal (now I must say the free meals were nice... but given a choice...) and got shuttled back to the airport to pick up a Rental Car. We had to pay for it. No rental car vouchers allowed... We drove to Jackson and go there just before lunch. We rushed to get floral arrangements and eat a nice lunch with Grandma R and Mom S before getting ready for the Rehearsal... everything else went as planned (THE IMPORTANT STUFF!!!) until Saturday afternoon... when calling to find out about our flights... there was no record of us being on a plane to BR and no record of us flying out. We tried to change our flight so we could get some sleep but it woudl have cost $1000!!! So we just stayed up all night and drove back to BR at 12:00 am and got there around 4:00 am, got on our plane and got back to Boise... much, much, much tiredness was had.

Also much joy. I would do it again if I was asked to. I loved seeing my hubby's family. They are MY family. They're great. Love them.