Tuesday, February 9, 2010

The Great Escape! Part 1

Our third Anniversary was coming up, and Stephen and I decided to go to St. Augustine, FL. We would see the Fountain of Youth, walk through old Spanish-influenced architecture, maybe see Savannah again, and spend time together (awww). We bought our tickets, booked our hotel and rental car and then waited. We were going to leave Thursday night, the "Snowstorm of the Century" was starting Friday. We decide to "escape" the snow and continue with our plans. Maybe we would have a delayed flight getting back, but that was okay. Here are the highlights of our trip.
-We had a great time on Friday in St. Augustine,FL
-We drove to Savannah,GA on Saturday (another great time)
-When we were in Savannah, the airline called us and told us that our first plane back on Sunday was canceled.
-We rescheduled our flight for later on Sunday: we would have a layover in Nashville, and then get to BWI late Sunday night (right).
- Late Saturday night, after eating dinner when we got back from Savannah, our second plane was canceled.
- We were on hold 1 1/2 hours to reschedule for our third plan.
-Southwest tells us they could only fly us back to BWI on WEDNESDAY!
-We canceled our flight, and then rescheduled with another airline and flew to White Planes, NY
-Lars, my brother-in-law, picked us up on Sunday at White Plans and we spent the night with my sister Kim at her house.
-We rented a car on Monday and drove back home Monday afternoon.
-Below is what greeted us at our door. There was about 3 feet of snow on our cars. We are not expecting to see our minivan until Spring (LOL).
- In short we went through MD, GA, FL, CT, NJ, NY (a total of six states) in 5 days.


The white lump behind Stephen is our minivan, and the car you some what see is our Hyundai.


The white lump is a car parked on the street.

Cars had to be dug out from their street parking.




Thanks to my mother-in-law, we had a snow blower to help us at least see our minivan.