Sun, Wind & Family

Today it is in the sixties and the sun is shinning brightly and the wind is still blowing! True, it is not quite as bad as yesterday, but as the natives say, the wind is always blowing in SD!

We were able to spend some time chatting with our family last night when we arrived and before we headed to bed. It was a long day, and we were glad to arrive. Needless to say, everyone slept well!

Here is a recap of our trip.

Part I

We left our house around 10:45 am and headed (with Ty driving) to the airport. Our original flight plan was to fly out of Syracuse around 12:40 pm with a connection in Chicago, then Denver and on to Pierre. We arrived at the airport about 11:00 am and spent some time talking, killing time until it was time to go through security. The children checked the monitors and the flight was on schedule. We were pleased to see that. Little did we know how quickly things can change! At 11:20 am, we decided we would get in line and start the process of getting through security. Tom watched while we went through the line and waved goodbye as we cleared the gate. We walked to the departure gate and the first thing we noticed was the scheduled flight time had changed to 2:31 pm. That was not what we wanted to see with 2 different connections. I went into problem solving mode immediately.