Delays, delays....

UPDATE (11:18 p.m. EST)

Patrick and Drew's plane finally took off from Detroit - they are due to land at 12:26 a.m. The roads are all iced over again so they are taking a cab home as getting in a car accident would not be a great way to end this day...

So - now Drew's Gottcha Day (or whatever we'll call it) is December 17 - good thing I held off on ordering those announcements - LOL.. :)

The funny thing is I spent so long thinking of the fantasy reunion at the airport with our families all around...oh well..as long as they get home safe and sound, that's all that matters....

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UPDATE (6:32 p.m. EST)

Patrick and Drew have landed in Detroit - my baby is officially an American citizen!!!!!!!!!! Their plane landed at 6:11 p.m. so they are still deplaning and all that..hopefully I will hear from Patrick in the next hour.

I still don't if they will make it here tonight. The flight that was due in from Detroit to Hartford at 7:15 p.m. was cancelled, and there's no news yet about their flight...

It's snowing/icing again here now...I can't believe all this...

But at least they are in the U.S.A....that is the good news...

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UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well - this is quite a story....

Patrick and Drew were all set to leave Almaty on time, but the plane they were taking clipped its wing against another plane upon landing in Almaty, so it had to be fixed before they could leave - that was a three-hour delay. Then the airline tried to give Patrick and Drew seats apart from each other - very smart, huh?? So, they got stuck in middle seats while every other person with a child on the plane got a bulkhead seat...ridiculous!! Aparently Drew was not too impressed with the whole plane experience - I don't know details though...

So - Patrick called this morning from Amsterdam - because their plane was late leaving Almaty, they took him off the flight to Hartford and put him on a flight to Detroit! Turns out, he could have made the flight to Hartford, but they wouldn't let him fly standby. So he's flying into Detroit and then getting into Hartford around 11:30 p.m.

In the meantime, we are having a terrible ice storm in central Connecticut - everything is covered in 3 inches of ice and it's not supposed to stop until this afternoon. I have no idea how I'm going to get out of my driveway, not to mention make it to the airport...

Of couse, since Patrick's first U.S. landing is in Detroit it means he has to go through customs there, which involves going through passport control, getting his luggage, going through customs, rechecking his luggage and getting back on a plane. Not good...

I feel sooooo awful for Patrick and Drew!!! They both must be completely miserable. It's going to be a long day for all of us...

Patrick did plan to introduce Drew to McDonald's today in the Amsterdam airport and then take him to a play area to hopefully get rid of some energy so he'll be OK for the plane ride to the U.S.

So - that's it for now..we'll see what happens...