Hurry up and wait!

Yes, I swear that is the motto of the US military -- hurry up and wait! We've had a very busy couple of days and are already pretty worn out.

We got to Ohio on Monday morning, after driving all night on Sunday night. At the time we arrived, we were planning on picking Hannah up from school and then heading towards somewhere in Pennsylvania to spend the night. We were planning on calling the airports early on Tuesday and then figure out where we wanted to head to -- primarily between Dover AFB or Baltimore airport. Jeremy called for flight status early in the afternoon and we discovered that they had a 1:30 "show time" (for Space A travel they publish the time you have to be there to sign up for the flight, not the time the flight will leave) at Dover for a flight to Germany (but not to Ramstein, where we were originally intending to go).

When Jeremy got in the shower around 2:00, we were still planning on staying in Pennsylvania, so I had our bags packed like we were going to a hotel and not the airport. When he got out of the shower 20 minutes later, he announced that he wanted to try and get the 1:30 flight. Holy smokes!!! Yes, we could do it, but we'd have all of 45 minutes to spare (for dinner, gas or traffic issues), plus I only had about 20 minutes to re-pack and say goodbye to Ross. Talk about a frantic 20 minutes!!!

On the way here, we called and discovered they had added a 2nd flight out at 1:30, so we were confident that we could get on a flight. We managed to get here in time, but by the time we got here, the flights were either cancelled, the seats filled or cargo was added instead of people. So, we're stuck here in Dover (and there isn't much to do here, I should add).

There are no flights until later today and tomorrow looks bleak. There have been A LOT more flights to Germany the last several weeks -- I'm assuming the drop in flights is due to the holiday weekend approaching. So, here we sit, waiting patiently and contemplating our options. Should we stay here? Should we head to Baltimore? What if we can't get a flight, what should we do? How about flying into England and taking the train to France? Is that totally crazy? What if we can get to Italy? We don't know anything about Italy, but it would certainly be an adventure.

So, anyway, that is where we are. Waiting, waiting, waiting...