A few years back, my dear husband, Bill, decided that he wanted to take our family on a ski trip. I should say that our family consists of daughter Kimberly, her husband and their five children and our son Tim and his lovely wife Ha. So that makes eleven of us in all. In 2008 we finally got things sorted out as to dates,etc and I booked the trip. I might mention that I simply adore skiing but that we had not been in about five years, and I was pretty certain that I had passed my skiing sell-by date!
We settled on going to Crested Butte in Colorado. That is one of our favorite ski destinations. The slopes are wonderful and the town is charming. We decided to go the week before Christmas for two reasons: there are fewer people there which makes for shorter lift lines and it is slightly cheaper. So, I began making the arrangements. Tim and Ha wanted to make their own flight arrangements because they wanted to fly from Colorado to Vietnam. As it turned out, that was not working so they flew back and forth from Houston also, but their flights were different from the rest of the family.
We all set out for Colorado on December 18 which I should mention was Hannah's and Hope's eighth birthday. Tim and Ha flew on one airline from Houston to Denver to Gunnison. They had no problems. However, we ( the other nine of us) flew from Houston to Dallas... period. It seems that the plane that was to wing us away to ski paradise was stuck in Las Vegas because of ice and snow there. Can you imagine, a snow storm in Las Vegas!!! So, after spending many hours camping out in the DFW airport, we were told that our flight was rescheduled for the next morning. That, of course, meant that we were missing the first day of our meagre three day (pre-paid) ski vacation . It also meant that, unless we wanted to sleep in the airport, we would need to find our way to a hotel. It also meant that we would not have our luggage. After you would not believe what tribulations, we finally made it to our hotel which was giving us "desperation" rates. The plus side to this was that the hotel was very kind to us and went out of their way to meet our needs. Also, we had a nice family meal in the bar!!!
We settled on going to Crested Butte in Colorado. That is one of our favorite ski destinations. The slopes are wonderful and the town is charming. We decided to go the week before Christmas for two reasons: there are fewer people there which makes for shorter lift lines and it is slightly cheaper. So, I began making the arrangements. Tim and Ha wanted to make their own flight arrangements because they wanted to fly from Colorado to Vietnam. As it turned out, that was not working so they flew back and forth from Houston also, but their flights were different from the rest of the family.
We all set out for Colorado on December 18 which I should mention was Hannah's and Hope's eighth birthday. Tim and Ha flew on one airline from Houston to Denver to Gunnison. They had no problems. However, we ( the other nine of us) flew from Houston to Dallas... period. It seems that the plane that was to wing us away to ski paradise was stuck in Las Vegas because of ice and snow there. Can you imagine, a snow storm in Las Vegas!!! So, after spending many hours camping out in the DFW airport, we were told that our flight was rescheduled for the next morning. That, of course, meant that we were missing the first day of our meagre three day (pre-paid) ski vacation . It also meant that, unless we wanted to sleep in the airport, we would need to find our way to a hotel. It also meant that we would not have our luggage. After you would not believe what tribulations, we finally made it to our hotel which was giving us "desperation" rates. The plus side to this was that the hotel was very kind to us and went out of their way to meet our needs. Also, we had a nice family meal in the bar!!!
Waiting patiently for the plane that did not arrive.
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