Coming Home - Drama

We left the hotel at 4am so that we could get gas, drive to the airport, and get through security. Lucky for us DIA was not extremely crowded. There were lots of lines of people thankfully we did not have to stand in a long line to print out our e-tickets. Yea for e-tickets. Cyndi was exhausted so she layed down at the airport next to another couple who passed out and went to sleep. Paul walked around and read his book. We boarded the plan at about 7:10am. It was an hour and 20 min. flight into Salt Lake. Cyndi slept the entire time, interrupted sleep but still sleep.

We arrived around 9am. Found our new terminal and gate. Cyndi got a BBQ chicken pizza and a soda, ate and drank then went to the gate and slept in the chairs. Paul tried to sleep but could not get comfy so he went back over to the pizza place got a refill on the drink and sat down to read his book.

Finally it was 11am we got ready to board the plane. Everyone got seated, then we sat for awhile. The captain came on saying there was a hydraulic leak in the engine. Cyndi didn't know what that meant but it didn't sound good. They said they were going to fix it so, we sat some more. After another 20 min. or so they said the plane was broke and would not be fixed anytime soon. So everyone got all their stuff and back off the plane we went. They sent us to a different terminal and gate, sat there for about 15 minutes and waited for another plane to show up. Then we repeated the boarding process. Everyone got back on the plane and we sat for another 10 min. or so. Finally they said we were ready to taxi out to the runway. We landed around 2:3pm. Charlie was so nice to come and pick us up. She dropped us off and headed down to a concert in Del Mar.

We are just glad that they figured out there was a leak before the plane took off seeing as they couldn't fix it very quickly and apparently the plane doesn't fly if there is a hydraulic leak. Paul and Cyndi are glad to finally have the day of travel behind them.