Grandma's MOO MOO

Last weekend was probably the worst traveling experience of my life. We were headed up to my Grandma's funeral in Salt Lake and arrived at LAX an hour early for our flight. The flight was delayed an hour and then another hour and then another hour until we finally caught a different flight after waiting in the airport for 5 hours with 2 kids under 2. Upon arriving at the Salt Lake airport, we realized that our baggage did not arrive with us. Hmmmm no car seats......how were we supposed to leave the airport without car seats. The lovely Delta baggage claim person kindly offered to let us choose between a wide variety of car seats to borrow, all of which came with a plethora of stains and holes dating back to the 80's when they were made. I think not. Fortunately, the car rental people provided us with 2 good, clean carseats that didn't look like 50 children had lost their lunches in them.

Delta informed us that they would drop off our one suitcase and carseats at Mike's Grandma's in Provo when they arrived. Well, when we arrived at Grandma's house after dinner, there was no luggage to be found. We waited and waited but still no luggage. Mike called customer service and they told us that they didn't deliver after 10pm. Mind you, we had to be out of the house at 8am the next morning for the funeral in SLC and I was going to be playing my violin in front of the whole audience. I really started panicking at this point because all I had were the clothes on my back. ( a barfed on t-shirt and jeans-nice funeral attire) I thought that I would at least wash my skivvies in grandma's tub and she kindly offered to let me sleep in her moo moo while they dried. Don't worry I took a picture for your enjoyment. Haven't you always secretly wanted to wear your Grandma's house coat to bed?????? She also offered to let me wear one of her outfits to the funeral- a nice shiny white grandma blouse with a lace collar and floral skirt. Fortunately for us the luggage arrived at 4am-hmm I thought they didn't do middle of the night deliveries.

Anyway, the funeral went well and I got to wear my own clothes.

Of course we were fortunate enough to spend an extra 2 hours in the SLC airport the following day because the line was long to check in and our luggage barely missed the 45 minute check in time requirement.

All in all I figure we spent over 8 hours total in the LAX and SLC airports over the course of about 30 hours-NICE!!!!

maybe next time we'll drive!!

I hope you all had a Happy Easter. We spent the day at Mom's house and it was quite delightful. It's so fun having a little girl to dress up in cute little floral dresses.