<p>Flight cancelled. Hoping she has enough insulin until she gets back to Madrid, whenever that might be. (Sad face)</p>
<p>Flying Aer Lingus next week. Keeping fingers crossed.</p>
<p>Was thinking of going to Europe this summer. Probably not worth the uncertainty as I have to be back at work on a certain day. Maybe try Hawaii instead.</p>
<p>Well, am glad we have deferred our travel plans to Europe & will be sticking with the US. Definitely it is not what we had planned, but we will enjoy less stress and see a lot of lovely US national parks without worrying if weather/ash or whatever else will disrupt our travel plans. Ironically, hubby had originally wanted to see the national parks anyway. As they say, “Man plans, GOD laughs.” </p>
<p>I told hubby that perhaps we’ll plan the trip to Europe to celebrate his retirement and the end of tuitions instead (one can dream).</p>
<p>HImom, that’s probably a good idea. Flight rescheduled for tomorrow. We’ll see.</p>
<p>Good luck on Are Lingus. The ash will be the boss.</p>
<p>gloworm, give your doctor and/or your insurance company a call if you think your D will be low in insulin if she remains stuck in England. They have insulin in England, it’s just a matter of getting authorization and payment for her to get it.</p>
<p>Thanks, Lafalum,</p>
<p>I e-mailed her suitemate from her home uni, who is British. Her uncle is a doctor near London, so it’s good. Getting medicine in the UK is easy if one knows what to do, and it is much less expensive than here. Same in Spain. This may be because she has a EU passport as well as an American one.</p>
<p>Now it’s just the days of class being missed. Hoping for understanding profs.</p>
<p>Glad your D’s health needs are being met and imagine the instructors will have to be understanding about issues that are well beyond the control of students, like having flights cancelled due to ash and/or other acts of nature.</p>
<p>You might see if your D can get a receipt for any medical care she gets & see if you can get reimbursed by your insurer. Our insurer does cover care received out of the country with proper documentation & some other policies also provide coverage.</p>
<p>I just spoke with her. She is in a group of ~20 who are stranded, not all trying to get to Madrid. They feel confident about getting out tomorrow, then things will be OK. A contingency plan has been worked out re:insulin in case tomorrow is a no-go. I’ll find out around 5:00am tomorrow morning Chicago time. The profs e-mailed that as long as she brings her original and updated travel tickets they will be “nice”.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone. I’m going to take a nap. I’m even too tired to watch the Blackhawk game tonight.</p>
<p>Back in Madrid! All the Spanish airports reopened today.</p>
<p>Scheduled to fly from LAX to madrid June 4. Need to be back in US as planned on 6/12 as we are self employed (yikes). Last time I checked flights from US to Madrid had been fine…anybody know if that is still the case?</p>
<p>We are flying to Turkey in early June… thinking postively about the volcano. (no blow, no, blow ;))</p>
<p>I don’t think there really is a way to know more than a few days in advance. So much depends on the amount of ash being spewed and the wind direction. There are daily “cloud” updates on many sites. I have been following those on the British sources.</p>
<p>I think even today, all US-Europe/Europe-US flights are being routed to the north and south of the main cloud mass, adding hours to the flights.</p>
<p>I hope you are flying on a EU carrier in case problems occur. We are debating whether to go to visit son.</p>
<p>gloworm, yay! Glad she is “home.”</p>
<p>So is she, but, this coming weekend she was supposed to go to Barca, but since she missed 3 days of classes, she can’t. Too much work. Since BIL is coming to visit us after that, she has to take care of his dog for 3 weeks, so she will not get there unless she goes after her internship finishes. It’s about the only place in Spain she has never been.</p>
<p>Oh that’s a shame! Barca is an AMAZING city. I hope she can work it out to go at the end of her internship</p>
<p>Her internship ends 7/2. I have her booked for 7/5, so she has that weekend to do whatever she likes, and so far she has to choose from a) spend it with her family there, b) go visit a friend in Paris, c)go with another relative to Valencia to visit our future in-laws, d)go to Barca e) go somewhere else. I’m not going to get involved. I’ll just settle for feeling like you did when your son came home.</p>
<p>My H was in Italy last week on business. He wasn’t due back until tomorrow. He called me last Fri as soon the volcano erupted, “get me out of here on the next flight.” he was lucky I was able to get him on a flight next day. They must have rerouted his fligh because his flight was one hour longer.</p>
<p>oldfort,</p>
<p>He was lucky. Some airports in Italy closed.</p>