The Vest Family: Our Vacation

So most of you know that Chris and I were supposed to go to Punta Cana, DR for our anniversary. We were supposed to leave Friday, May 13th, but our flight into Chicago got canceled due to weather. We contemplated driving to Chicago, but it would have been after midnight before we arrived, and we would have had to pay for parking. So we called the airline and while se were at the airport we were rescheduled on a flight to Atlanta in the A.M. So we went out to dinner in Ankeny. At the end of dinner, Chris checked our flights, only to discover that our flight was yet again CANCELED!

After contemplating canceling our trip and lots of emotions later, we discovered that our only real chance of making it to the DR on Saturday was to drive to Omaha. So at 9:30 Friday night Chris, Addison, Bob, Marcia and myself drove to Omaha! Chris and I couldn't go by ourselves, because our return flight was through Chicago and we wouldn't have a way to get the truck home. It was around 12:00 when we arrived in Omaha (hindsight - should have driven to Chicago).

Our flight was to leave at 5:40 am so we went to sleep for about two hours then headed out to the airport. After arriving at the airport, we discovered that USAIRWAYS (our original airway) hadn't transferred our tickets to Delta (our new airline). After much back and forth and no one wanting to take blame for the issue at hand, USAIRWAYS discovered that when we almost canceled our trip one of the USAIRWAYS reps entered something wrong, realized this, but neglected to fix it! Too bad they discovered all of this 5 min after our flight left, especially since there was no way to make the flight out of the US that day.

So, we went home, and canceled everything! How disappointing going from first class tickets to the DR to going back home.

Chris and I worked Monday and Tuesday then took off with Addison to camp outside Minneapolis Wednesday night through Satuday morning. We had a great time with our little peanut - swimming, riding bikes, playing in the sand, swimming, and of course mini golf and Shopping!