Apparently I can drag this out forever.

The spring break extravaganza was so long ago that I can barely remember what happened anymore!  But, I'll do my best, because that was where the drama happened!  First, we toured a few monuments we had missed, and it was wet and rainy.

We got to the airport with plenty of time,  got loaded on the plane, taxied out to the runway, then WAITED.  and WAITED.  and WAITED.  and WAITED.  There were storms in Detroit, where we were going.  Planes were being hit by lighting.  one hour.  two hours.  At the 3 hour mark they taxied back to the terminal, but brightly told us not to get off, because we would be taking off any minute now.  But wait!  Now the lighting and wind was close to us, so we couldn't take off.  Now there's WATER LEAKING IN OUR PLANE.  The captain was pretty excited about that actually, because it became a maintenance delay, not just a weather delay and the airline would have to pay hotel etc. for those who had missed flights (us, for one).

So!  For the 4 1/2  hour delay in that cramped teeny airplane how were we prepared?  Well, the kids were tired of their books and toys.  We forgot to charge both the gameboy and the DVD player, so they both conked out after about 15 minutes.  I played a million card games with the youngest 2, after which Roger read Gregor to Ethan and Eli.  Our kids did a really, really great job - for which we were all grateful.  It really helped that there was about 20 teenagers from a school group, so our kids weren't the loudest ones!

In case you're wondering, no, they don't feed you any extra while you're being a sardine in a can.  Once they passed out the package of peanuts and little cup of pop, THATS IT.  When we finally landed we were tired and hungry, and we still had to take the shuttle to the hotel.  .

The one really awesome thing about this whole fiasco was that Chris, my brother who lives in Detroit heard we were laid over, drove up to our hotel, and visited and ate dinner with us at midnight! (bad picture, I'm sorry) Then he came back the next morning and visited us for breakfast, then drove us back to the airport.

And thats not the end of the story!!

We got to the airport in plenty of time, dun dun dun, got on the airplane and it started to take off.  We were going really fast - then all of a sudden the plane slammed on the brakes!!!!  It was pretty scary!  After we finally got stopped, the captain said that an error light that had popped on, and the maintenance guys would come look at it.  It took 1 1/2 hours! And THEN we still had the 4 hour flight!  So in the end, we were on the airplane for almost the same amount of time as the day before.  I had purchased 6 granola bars at the airport, so that and the darn peanuts were the kid's lunch.  We were all tired and hungry when we finally got back to good old Salt Lake City, where Breanne picked us up.

And THATS the end of the story!