<p>DD was home before noon Sunday, only 18 hours late. She would still be waiting to get a flight out of Syracuse if we hadn’t put her on a bus to a different airport. The first re-issued itinerary, going thru Philly, that had her flying out of Syracuse Sunday evening (hours after we already had her home) ended up canceled, too. She said the Continental counter people were wonderful about working with her to get her ticket switched around. </p>
<p>I’m out a Greyhound ticket, a little taxi fare and some lost sleep - but getting my girl home - priceless.</p>
<p>Fingers crossed and safe travels for the rest of the kiddos making their way home right now.</p>
<p>D2 got home at 3 am. (Yea!!) Total travel time from Moscow to Boston (including airport delays and drive from NYC to Boston) 24 hours! D waited 2 hours for her luggage at JFK, then waited again, because the driver of the car service company that picked her up couldn’t get to the terminal pick-up area for over an hour. D asked the driver if she could bring 2 friends from her Moscow program with her–they were going to Boston too but were trying to go standby. Driver agreed, got them all in, and all was well. I’ve got three college kids upstairs–they’ve been sleeping for 9 hours and I haven’t heard a thing.</p>
<p>Yes, D is home - safe, sound, and sleeping! She was up for 3 straight days with all the good-bye parties, packing, and travel (she can’t sleep on planes, no matter how long the flight or how tired she is). She kept me up until almost 2, talking … I dragged myself out of bed at 5 to get ready for work. The commute was tough … I almost needed toothpicks to prop my eyes open! But she is home, and that is a wonderful thing.</p>
<p>DS’s Saturday flight home from Newark on Delta was cancelled Friday, so I booked him a Saturday flight fom Philadelphia on Southwest using rapid reward credits. That flight was cancelled as well. I worked both airlines to get him home as soon as possible; he is our oldest and a freshman and we haven’t seen him since school started. Delta’s line is constantly busy; Southwest’s gives a message something like “your expected wait time is between one hour thirty three minutes an two hours fifty two minutes.”</p>
<p>Finally got him on a Delta flight out of Philly. Non-stop, bumped to first class. He’s in the air now. Hip hip hooray.</p>
<p>D is here!!! She said some kids who had tickets to fly out of Boston on Sunday now have to wait until Wed. Her plane landed at Seatac on time. She is sleeping her tail off :)</p>