Monday, March 13, 2023

Trying to get home





After the concert, we had to try to get home....that was an ordeal.  Our flight into Mpls was late and the Bismarck flight did not wait for us so we ended up stranded in Mpls overnight.  We used vouchers to get a hotel and some food the next day.  We were on the morning flight back home which kept getting delayed since a snow storm had just begun in Bismarck.  Finally we got to get on the plane and head to Bismarck.  We were 15 minutes from landing in Bismarck when the captain told us due to visibility conditions we were re-routing to land in Rapid City SD!  They told us we'd refuel and get going but the staff in Rapid City was not prepared for us and kept us there longer.  Then we heard our flight crew had timed out and could no longer work!  We had to wait almost 9 hours in the Rapid City airport for a new crew to come from Mpls to fly us home to Bismarck.  The crazy thing is the weather in Bismarck got worse, not better and yet we somehow could land that evening but weren't able to that morning.  Bobby did his boxing game in the  middle of the terminal and I logged 3 miles walking in circles in the TINY airport.  It was torture but we were happy to finally get home.
 

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