February 13 2009

This is Oliver on a bus on the way to Idaho, that's right a bus, not a plane. When we were arriving at the Idaho Falls airport there was too much fog to land so they redirected us to Bozeman Montana. Pleasant place. We arrived at about midnight and I was able to do something that I've always wanted and that was to take stairs off the plane onto the runway. Awesome. But then we found out that they were going to put us up in a hotel for the night and try to fly us in the morning. Okay, that's fine. One night in a hotel and than me and Oliver can hop on the flight and get to Idaho in 30 min and hand him over to my parents and then I can catch up on some sleep. So we get to our hotel room at 2 am, Oliver falls asleep at 3, I wake up at 5 thinking I've missed the bus back to the airport. Arrive at the airport at approximately 6:30 am and am promptly told that IF is still fogged in and we are going to be bussed to IF. That is a four hour bus ride! Well, I made it safe and Ollie was an angel on the bus ride, slept for a part of it and played with his shoe the other part. I'm glad that Northwest Airlines didn't sacrifice safety and redirected us but I wish that the next morning had been handled a little bit better.