Day 8 Surprise stay in Vegas

Day 8 was supposed to be our day to fly home and be in Utah around 7:30 that night. After a tearful goodbye at the Gatwick England Airport with Niel and Carolee Ryan and I were plenty early to make our flight. Well our 2 hour wait turned into 4 hours since our plane was delayed. We finally made it onto our flight to Las Vegas and 10 1/2 hours of movie watching. By the time we made it into Las Vegas we had already missed our connecting flight to Utah. Tyler, My parents, and Janette geared up  for one more night while we were stuck in Vegas. The airline put us up in the Tropicana and payed for our dinner that night. The sad thing was Ryan and I were jet legged and so tired that we were trying to stay awake during dinner and then really partied it up in Vegas by falling asleep by 9pm. The only problem was we were use to London time so at 3am we were wide awake and ready to go. Lucky for us we had to meet our shuttle at 3:50 am to get to the airport for our 6:30 flight home.

Steve was so nice and picked us up at the airport and we were home by 10:30am on Weds. We picked up Emery from my parents house, drove home and Ryan quickly showered and went to work. Emery so very happy to have mom home and we came home to snow on April 2. The best part about our flight getting messed up was that is was on April Fools day so Janette had a hard time believing it was real and that we weren't pulling a prank on her!

Since there was snow on the ground and Emery was ready to play with mom again, we had to go outside and built a snowman! It was a great day and it was so nice to have my kids come home, even my 13 year old, and come running in to give me a hug hello! We brought home an airborn beenie for Tyler, WW2 inspired lego for Treven, and Effiel Tower necklaces for the girls. The hit was the candy and chocolate for England and it lasted about an hour before it was gone!

This was a once in a lifetime trip and it bite me with the travel bug and I can't wait to go out of the country again. The best part was meeting so many different people from all over and getting to spend 8 days with Ryan and seeing Ryan's parents. We have so much family and friend support that we couldn't of gone without their help! We are so blessed!

Back to the real world!!!!!