Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable….

Your airport disaster story reminds me of mine. I went to Israel in March (fantastic trip! I even went to Palestine to see Bethlehem!) and on the way back at Newark airport, my flight was cancelled due to ice falling. I got another flight for 12 hours later. Well, the airport shut down just before my flight. Luckily, friends Jeff and Cathy had reserved a room for us at the Econolodge. We were on a long line to book another flight back to Seattle, and a woman came down the line saying, “Do not stand in this line! Call us! We can’t get you out of here until the next four days!” The airport was in mayhem and they ran out of food and lodging. It took forever to get to the Econolodge, and once there they didn’t have our reservation at first. Luckily, they found it. The next day the Econolodge was buzzing with people waiting to reserve rooms for the next night. Jeff said, “We need to rent a car and get out of here.” So we decided to drive to my mom’s house, but she had left her house keys in Seattle (I went on the trip with her). We had the locksmith come and because my Mom has locks all inside the house it cost $1,000 to get the house open, and we still didn’t have the tv room open. We had to go to Kmart and buy clothes and toiletries. Luckily I had travel insurance which reimbursed me a bit of money. Josh fedexed my Mom’s keys so finally we got the tv room open–we had been singing songs and telling stories in the evening. We had no coats so we couldn’t go into NYC. We don’t know what we would have done without Jeff and Cathy. My mom was visiting for Thanksgiving and we had dinner with them. My Mom and I are going to Budapest, Prague, and Vienna next November 2008 and I am praying that the airports don’t shut down due to snow!
Love, Karen