Still Waiting??

Here it is, 11:04pm Tuesday night, almost 5  hours after John and Cynthia's flight was scheduled to depart from the Denver airport, and we don't know if their plane has actually departed. I have gone to the Southwest Airline website repeatedly and it says that the flight is estimated to leave at 8:40pm and is delayed, but of course 8:40pm was over 2 hours ago. So SWA has not updated the information on that flight for over 2 hours, which seems odd. I called Cynthia's cell phone to see if they are in fact in the terminal, but her voice mail answered and said it was full and could not receive any messages. So we don't really know what is happening there. I hope Southwest Airlines is taking care of them, but I'm afraid it may be a mess.

We dropped John and Cynthia off at the Denver Airport after we all said our goodbyes to Betsey, Rob and Katie. It will be hard for Betsey because she has had first her wonderful two-week road trip and then the Christmas holidays to look forward to for months, and now that is all behind her and her family has left. But she and Rob and Katie and Gertie are a tight unit and I know they will deal with it. But there will be some letdown for sure.

After dropping off John and Cynthia, Ellen and I headed to Wyoming. We are now in Rawlins, in the First Choice Motel. Our trip was largely uneventful, weather-wise, though toward the end it began to be blowing snow conditions. It is also very cold - about 5 degrees or so. We are not used to that!

We will drive to Alpine tomorrow, arriving sometime after 3pm. We sure hope John and Cynthia will get home ok and not too exhausted. There is a big storm going on back east, and when they talked with a neighbor earlier this afternoon, they learned that there had been a lot of icing in their area. So they may find they have an impassable driveway. Godspeed John and Cynthia!

Approaching the Denver International Airport

Quite a sight, against the late afternoon sky

As we approached Rawlins, we went past this otherworldly sight in Sinclair, WY

This "otherworldly sight" is of course an oil refinery going day and night. But after seeing Star Wars, it looked to us like something on another planet.