...the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad TRAVEL Day...

...so...

...that's an ominous title isn't it?...

...we had scheduled another campus visit for Scout at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming...so...

...we got up early...like 4 AM early to leave West Virginia, Tuesday...

...all was well...they de-iced the plane for Chicago and we left within an hour of our departure time...which put us late getting to Chicago...and we RAN to catch our flight to Denver...

...which also left an hour late...

...which would have meant another mad dash in Denver to catch our flight for Casper, Wyoming...but we were ok with that...it is February after all...and you can't expect everything to be on time during stormy winter weather...

...BUT...a few minutes into our Denver flight we knew things were not quite right...I was sitting in our row of three...flanked by the Man aisle-side and Scout window-side...when it started to get very warm...I mean like sauna warm...and everyone's ears started popping in a MAJOR way...people were screaming and crying...and I don't mean children...

...but the pilot was calm and cool when he spoke to us over the PA system...stating that there were problems with the cabin pressure...and we weren't going to be able to climb above 14,000 feet...or the oxygen masks would deploy...

...so we descended to 10,000 feet and made a swooping arc to return to Chicago...we knew then that all hope of getting to Casper was lost...

...it was kinda weird to fly at such a low altitude in such a big jet...

...and even weirder (word?)...to land as an EMERGENCY...with fire trucks and paramedics waiting...I really should have gotten a photo...but it was kinda hectic and chaotic at the moment...so I didn't...

...when we first landed we all yawned repeatedly trying to get our ears back to normal...but some people on the plane were taken by paramedics to the hospital...and we had to sign a waiver that we were refusing medical treatment...

...so here we are back on the ground in Chicago...and the line to customer service now has 400 people in it...so the Man called our airline...and guess what...all flights to Denver are full...surprise...surprise...NOT...

...but believe it or not they offered to switch us to another airline...who knew they did that...

...but instead of going to Denver we are now going to Salt Lake City...close...right...???

...so we spent 5 hours in the Chicago airport watching the snow fall...

...and finally got on our new flight to Salt Lake City...

~Y'all have a lovely day!...travel update tomorrow...