Jim's grandmother, Mamaw Irene, used to say, "I'll think about it all later," whenever she'd had a big weekend...like if she'd been on a trip, or she'd had lots of company. She'd have to wait a day or three until everything settled down and she could fully process everything. I can SO relate to that after the whirlwind week we had.
So Aunt Leanne, asked Holly and I if we wanted to go on a little "girl's trip" the week after Amy's wedding. It took us both about 1.2 seconds to say, "ummm...yeah!"
She gave us several places to choose from but I really didn't care where we went...I thought Holly might want to go somewhere she had never been. They chose Southern California.
Best.decision.ever.
Leanne said we would stay in Anaheim. She is a Disney Club member, so we were going to stay at the premier hotel on the Disneyland property. We would make that our "home base."
First...we had to get there.
Leanne made flight arrangements for Holly and I to leave out of Little Rock, and then meet up with her at DFW...and then we would all three fly together to California.
Well.
We were so excited, Holly and I. We were taking pictures of each other and texting people. Our flight was supposed to leave at 11:20 a.m. Right as they were calling the first people to board, they came back with an announcement about a "maintenance issue." That turned into an hour delay...which turned into a several hour delay...which turned into everyone running to get into a LONNNNNGGG line to re-book flights because ain't nobody got time for THAT...which turned into a 7 hour flight delay (for us...because we didn't stay around to get on that broken plane when it was fixed 11 hours later!)...which made Leanne have to change her flight to still be able to meet up with us...which made us have to fly into a totally different airport in a totally different city...which made us have to change the rental car situation...and we were not able to all 3 sit together on the flight out there, which was half the point of flying out there together...but, desperate times and all of that...
And the whole thing made us lose, like, 7 or 8 hours of our afternoon/evening.
But we kept our good attitudes, and finally made it to our destination. We dropped our luggage off in our room, and headed out to Downtown Disney to get our Mickey on, and to get excited for the week! We finally got in our room and got a few hours of sleep.
We have a lunch reservation at The Ivy tomorrow! I'm so excited!
I am thankful to be here, and thankful for God's protection all the way.
(P.S. Leanne got a notification on her phone that our first flight...the delayed one? It finally left Little Rock at 10:45 at night!)
"...Thou, O LORD, are a shield about me..." Psalm 3:3
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