We're baack!

After being out of town for about 2 1/2 weeks. We're back and can't wait to share our stories with our friends BUT as for right now we are dying trying to catch up on school. Be excited to hear about

• Jerusalem and all that entails
• Thanksgiving in California
• Whitney's wedding

As for now I will leave you with a story. At the end of our trip we were in New York for a few days. We flew in from Israel around 5 am Friday the 19 and were supposed to fly back @ 8:30 pm Saturday the 20. Ya that didn't happen, for some reason James and I had our flight time wrong. We thought it was 9:30 and we were planning to be at the airport at 7:30 so we would have made it but did you know huge parts of the subway system shuts down for maintenance repairs on weekend nights? Neither did we. It took us an extra 45 minutes because of all of the transfers we had to make in order to get to the airtram to get to the airport. We arrive at the airport at 8:15, which was cutting it close for our nonexistent 9:30 flight, but definitely not okay for our real 8:30 flight. As we are walking to get in line I look over to the departure sign and Salt Lake City is blinking. The plane is boarding RIGHT NOW! I then ask James, "Was our flight at 8:30?" We run up to the desk and the guy wouldn't even let us try to make it. He put us on standby for the next flight to Salt Lake City... which was the same exact flight 24 hours later. We didn't want to spent the $30 it would be to get out of the airport plus the $150 more for the hotel, so we stayed in the airport. We slept here.

 

I had ear plugs and slept with my scarf over my face. For the rest of the time there we watched movies on James's laptop, looked around, rode the airtram about a zillion times (because some terminals had food but didn't have internet, and the places that had internet didn't have food), and we did a ton of homework. Basically if you ever need someone to show you around the JFK airport I'm your girl.

We got into our standby flight AND it was delayed 2 hours, awesome. So we called and told our friends not to pick us up on a school night at 2 am. We got in at 2. James's grandma came to get us, we dropped her off at her place and took her car to Provo. We were in Provo from about 330 am to 230 pm when we had to drive back to Salt Lake for our flight out to California.

Right now I hate airplanes. We went to the movies a few days after this incident and I was just angry the whole time because the movie theater felt like an airplane. I fell right asleep (like I do on planes) I literally watched 2 minutes of Harry Potter. Oh well.

Hope you enjoyed our mishaps :)