Sunday, August 2, 2009

To fly or not to fly... that is the question

I had hoped that my next blog post would be from the States as we were planning on already being there by now. Alas, the C-5 we were to "hop" out on had some maintenance issues and the flight has slipped. This is not out of the ordinary, of course, but this is a whole new experience for our family as we've never "hopped" before.

All day yesterday we kept watch on the scheduled flight time and the mission continued to slip a few hours at a time, but we were patient. I kept reminding myself we wouldn't have to go through the Madrid airport, and we'd have some leg room, both definite perks of going Space-A (space available), but a gamble too, in that nothing is guaranteed.

So today is like Groundhog Day in that we're going to do it all again... following the same routine, only this time we're hoping to actually make it on the plane and get airborne with no maintenance issues. Keep your fingers and toes crossed that we're a go tonight.

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