Home at last!

First, let me repeat,a FANTASTIC trip all around, until we arrived at the Dublin airport yesterday to head home.

OMG air travel today is painful enough without throwing in an errupting volcano! It was a two day journey to get home. We were supposed to leave Dublin at 10:30 yesterday but our flight was delayed two hours until 12:30. They boarded us for the 12:30 and then informed us there were more delays, possibly up to two hours to get a flight path and space to take off, but that to be ready at a moment's notice we had to stay on the plane. Two hours of sitting at the gate later, and one loss to Chuck at Rummy 500, we took off. The flight was 9:40 instead of 7:40 because they were routing planes up over Iceland and Greenland and back down to avoid the ash cloud. 11+ hours on the plane we arrived in Atlanta but has missed both evening flights to Portland. Side note movie review: they played several movies on the plane to entertain us. Dear John (cheesy!). The Blind Side (very good). The Day the Earth Stood Still (minus 50 IQ points).

We stayed in the notel motel (Quality Inn) courtesy of Delta. Flew home this morning on a 8:30 flight. Tired but glad to be home.