Home Coming

Well, the kids were supposed to come home last night but given the state of today's airline service, it wasn't surprising that they didn't make it. It seems that their United Flight was canceled due to so called "bad weather". This actually turned out to be a good thing because even though their THY flight from Istanbul arrived 30 minutes early, they sat on the runway for over an hour. Because of this they wouldn't have made their connection anyway. United did do a good thing by putting them up in a hotel and scheduling them on a direct Delta Flight at 0835 this morning.

I woke them up this morning at 0545 to make sure they made the hotel shuttle to the airport at 0630. They should have had plenty of time to make their flight but because their cell phones are dead, I'm unable to confirm it. I'm now tracking the flight but as of now (0900) it isn't showing that it has taken off.

Update at 0906: I just checked the Delta website and it shows that it took off at 0832 and is expected to arrive 15 minutes early at 1011. Time to go to the airport. Don't want to be late.

Update at 1114: Picked them up and got them home. Both of them glad to be home. Alis says she's not going to leave the house for three days. It is good to finally have them home. Now we just got one more to get home.