Finally Home...

Well, we got an extra day in Italy! This must just be the month for bad flight experiences (Leah and Kyle have had terrible experiences in the past few weeks too)...however, after finally being able to get on the plane, it was AWESOME! Here's what happened, we got to the airport on Saturday morning at 6:30am for our 8:50 am flight. We were at our gate and they make an announcement that we are going to board in 10 minutes. Well, 5 mins later an announcement is made that the flight is delayed until 9:30 and we will board at 9:10. At 9:25 an announcement is made that the flight is delayed until 10:30...later it was delayed until 12:30....then finally cancelled. The plane was apparently having technical difficulties and they had to fly a mechanic and an inspector from the states to come look at it. Awesome. Like I want to be on THAT plane! So they tell us that Delta is putting us in a hotel for the night and will cover all of our meals and that our flight is rescheduled for 8am Sunday morning. As we are lining up to follow the attendant to baggage claim to pick up our stuff and head to the shuttle that is taking us to the hotel, an announcement is made that our 8am flight as been delayed until 12pm. Awesome. So we get to the hotel that is in the middle of Rome's residential area aka ghetto, and just stayed put in the hotel all night. Well there were poster's put up all around the hotel saying that a shuttle would pick us up at 8am and at 9am to take us to the airport for our 12pm flight. Well, Greg and I decided to get some coffee in the lounge and overheard someone saying that they were going to be in the lobby ready to go at 6am. Hmm. So we asked why so early, and they said because they were going to try to make an earlier flight. Well, we went back to our room and signed on to the internet to check our itinerary and noticed that there wasn't even a scheduled flight for 12pm on Sunday, there was an 8am and an 8:50am flight. So we called Delta and got our flight switched to the 8:50 flight so we wouldn't end up on the messed up plane. We got booked on that flight ANNNNNNND got upgraded to first class!! It was AWESOME!!! It made an 11 and a half hour flight a breeze!! We were also very glad we switched because that other plane kept getting delayed and they did not take off until 4pm yesterday! I'm just glad we didn't have any connecting flights! But all that aside, we are very glad to be home and we were SOOO happy to see our puppies =) I'll write more about what we thought about Italy later...this is long enough AND I have midterm at 2 that I have yet to study for..oops =)