A little over a week ago, I went with my mom and sister to Spokane, Washington for my cousin's wedding. It was quite the chaotic trip! I'll just put the brief version:
It started off with our flight being canceled because of fog. So I was on the phone with Southwest, my mom was on the flight with U.S airways, and so was everyone else on our plane, trying to get out of town that day. After quite awhile, we finally got on to a flight to Seattle (after getting our luggage, re-checking it, and the Seattle flight was delayed because of a tardy crew). We got into Seattle, and at the same time we are calling other family that was coming in from Idaho and Utah because we were all getting into Spokane around the same time and we had rented a big SUV so we could all carpool. Idaho flight=canceled, they had to fly to Seattle but were 2 hours behind us. Utah flight= their luggage went on a flight before them and went to Spokane, and they were detoured to Pasco(sp) and they had to rent a car and drive to Spokane. So all 3 families were renting cars to get to Spokane.
So it took us awhile for someone to let us rent a car and only drive it one way, plus everyone was saying that we needed chains the drive was going to be SO terrible and there was no way we were going to make it in a car. We finally got an SUV and we were on our way. Chains??? There was NO snow or ice on the road. We kept waiting for this horrible weather to get to us and it never came. There was some pretty thick fog, but nothing too bad.
(Update: Idaho family: driving from Seattle... we told them to not listen to the people and just get a car, Utah family: When they got to the Spokane airport it was so foggy that all the flights got canceled so EVERYONE WENT HOME! So they locked their luggage up and they couldn't get it.) We got to Spokane, went to see my relatives at the house. Bride and Groom had just gotten there too. After about an hour, we went to go to the car rental place, return the small SUV, and get the one we were supposed to have to drive everyone everywhere. (it's about 11:30 at night... we were originally supposed to arrive at noon.) We switch cars, get to the hotel, we were supposed to have 2 rooms next to each other... they were on opposite sides from each other. Got that fixed, got to our room around 1:30, Idaho family got there around 2, and all was good!!! Ok, so that wasn't such a brief version.
I didn't take too many pictures of people (just scenery) so the first 3 are from Mckenna. I'll have to get some with Conner in them from other people.
Brianna and me
Me, Brianna, and Bailey at the reception
Me, Mckenna, Brianna.... we were trying to find a Walgreens without asking anyone for directions! It took quite awhile, but we had lots of fun looking!
The Bride and Groom
It was so great meeting Rachel. She is from England and is the sweetest girl. We love her John! Congratulations you guys!
I loved all of the snow! It's so pretty!
Us at the reception again
Back at the airport. It was a SUPER quick trip, but it was good to see everyone! Brianna leaves on her mission in April to Brazil so I was glad to spend some time with her!
(We were able to fly out of Spokane. It was really foggy the whole trip until we were driving to the airport to leave. It all of a sudden cleared right up and we could actually see sky!)
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