On our way - finally

What happened to the tiny preemie???? Alex has some serious rolls now!!
Guelly being his ornery self while Alex tries to sleep in this morning.

How come things never work out as easy as they should? I should have known I was in trouble when the first flight from Ft. Wayne left an hour late. It got into Chicago 45 minutes later, leaving me about an hour to find my next flight - in the next terminal and as far from where I came in as you could get. Got there, they loaded the plane on time, then we sat on the plane for an hour waiting on a first officer to get there. He made it, we went onto the runway, about 12 planes ahead of us to take off, and the storms were getting too close and they shut the plane down and sat there. After another hour - 2 hours late by that time- we took off for Dallas. Of course I had missed my connecting flight to El Paso. They booked me on the 1:00 - by the time I got to that gate, the time had changed to 2:38 departure!!! Got the Tracfone out to call Ali - no signal!! So used a pay phone to call - of course she doesn't answer. Did this twice so I finally got on the plane -loaded bt 2:16 but didn't leave till 2:45 - hoping Ali had gotten the messages. She had, claiming she had been busy both times I called. As soon as I got to El Paso I called again - Tracfone working - and got her. She was waiting by the baggage claim. Loaded everybody in the car and headed out around 5:30pm. Stopped after 11 local time at a Day's Inn in Colorado City, TX.