Our Adventure

Things were going so great with Brandon in New York that I just couldn't let him go back to Texas without me. So when I could finally go we checked the flights and decided that the only way we could get out was to get to Philadelphia somehow. Seeing as to how it was 4 hours away we weren't really sure how we were going to pull that off. Philadelphia seemed like a sure thing and since all the flights out of the nearest airports were full we decided to buy train tickets to Philly. Seemed simple enough.. and it was. We woke up at 5 and hopped the train which we took to another train where we took a cab to the airport. All things were going smoothly until I said "hey babe our adventure's almost over" and the next thing we knew two of the later flights were canceled and all the people from those flights were filling up the open seats on the ones we were listed for. Never ever fly standby. Ever.


So we waited around for a while to see if we could get out but it wasn't happening. Without panicking we discussed our options. We ended up finding a place to stay and woke up early the next morning to get to the airport for some mystery flight that was supposed to fly out all the people from the previous nights canceled flights. To our disappointment there was no such flight. So there we were at 3 o'clock in the morning stuck in the airport again. Only this time things didn't look good for us at all. We went through security and then found a place to sit down. Feeling hungry we grabbed some food and checked out the flights. They looked terrible. I looked at Brandon and said "we're not getting out today and it won't be any better tomorrow. Is there anywhere near here we can fly out of?" He told me about an airport his parents had mentioned and we checked it out. It was in Washington DC, 3 hours away! We looked at the flights and they looked great. But knowing how way gives into way we knew what could happen if we pursued this. We weighed our options but decided in the end that this was the best option. If we stayed in Philly, there was a good chance that we wouldn't be getting out for days and this was our only chance to possibly get out that day. We looked at rental cars with no avail so we checked out once again, train tickets. We had to make our decision quick.


We bought the tickets and boarded a train to the train station where we took two subway cars and a bus to the airport. We made it to the airport with just about enough time to make the flight we were aiming for. We hurried and made it through security just to get stuck waiting for a shuttle to take us to our gate. Once the shuttle doors opened we rushed through toward our gate just to find some passengers from another flight trying to get on this one. They had priority over us and would most likely take our seats. That was it. After two days of ups and downs and running around all over the place, trains and buses, taxi's, and subways...we needed to get on this flight or I was going to fall apart. The next flight looked good for us to get out but it was 4 hours later and we were both exhausted. Luckily we got on, we grabbed the last two seats and finally were headed to the place we had intended to arrive a day earlier.

"The truely happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery of a detour."- anon