Getting Home...

Ahhh... those last pictures in the sandstorm reminded me... I wanted to share about the adventure of getting HOME!  Just hours before we were scheduled to leave Luxor, a sandstorm suddenly kicked up.  (Really, we were swimming in the pool in the morning, and came out after our showers to what seemed like a smoky haze!)  Soon after we arrived at the airport, our flight was delayed by several hours.  Apparently our plane had to land elsewhere in Egypt due to the conditions.  Slowly, flights were being canceled around us and people were being sent to hotels.  But our plane was able to get through and they quickly boarded us!  An hour into our flight, we were told that our crew had already logged in too many hours (something John and I suspected) and so were had to land in ROME just to change crews!  Our kids had been troopers up to that point, but our little man was not happy when we woke him up just past midnight to buckle up for landing just to be told that we were NOT home yet!  In the end, I fell into my bed at 5:15 am on Thursday morning.  It was a long night, but we were all happy to be in our beds!