So, this epic endeavor to travel with our kids for six weeks was precipitated by the wedding of Jon’s best friend Jon D. He proposed to his almost-wife Jeanna about a year ago and clued us into their plans to get married in Ireland. A few months later the tickets were booked and accommodations paid, and then my Jon quit his job. Instead of stressing about the next step we decided to extend the trip to travel because we can always make more money, but we can never make more time. I still don’t know what the plan will be when we get back, but for now we are going where adventure leads us.
The first place adventure led us was to Dulles airport. My Jon’s cousin drove us to the airport on a sunny early afternoon and dropped us off at the gate, just as any rockstar cousin would. We found the rest of the 25 or so members of the wedding party and proceeded through the excruciatingly long line at the International Security area with our antsy small children.
We arrived at the gate only to find out our flight was late due to weather. A storm had stirred up over DC and many flights were grounded flying in. We were delayed. And then delayed again. And again. Then at 10PM when our kids were nearly bonkers, they announced that they had to cancel the flight due to crew “time-out”.
I was super wanting to “time-out” of my life at that point because I was hot, tired, and grumpy and couldn’t help but be short tempered with my hot, tired, and grumpy little humans. But, I told them, and myself, that however frustrated we were feeling was nothing compared to how the bride and groom were feeling after painstakingly planning this whole wedding week.
Basically the only way to get all of the wedding party to the actually wedding in Ireland with any semblance of time left to attend the wedding was for us to split the party up and stomach a middle of the night layover, instead of the direct originally scheduled. Jon and I ended up in the BWI group, which we wanted to be in anyway because we knew it would be less busy, heading up the group of humans who had never traveled internationally before. This should be interesting, but so far so good. We have a layover in London and then off to Dublin to try to catch up with our planned itinerary. Wish us luck!
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