Day 18-Flying Stand-By

Oh what an adventure today has been! Anna and I decided to go visit Emma in Colorado. Her dad, works for American Airlines and gets discounts on tickets IF you fly standby. We were up for the adventure and soon found ourselves at the Lambert International Airport, waiting for a 1:05 flight to DFW. Anna was in communication with her parents and they were telling us that it was looking slim. We still remained optimistic, but soon found out that our optimism wore out and we were stuck in STL to wait for the next flight at 3:15. Now, if we missed this flight, then we would miss our connecting flight to Vail, which mean we would be stuck in DFW unless we somehow got to Denver from DFW...so we set our goal to be to get to DFW!!! We of course didn't get on the 3:15 flight, which meant we missed the connecting flight. We were pretty sure we would make the 4:55pm flight. So, we kicked into action to formulate a plan. We knew we would probably be stranded in Dallas because the flights to Denver didn't look too good.

So at this point our choices were:
1) get to Dallas, stay until tomorrow morning and try again.
OR
2) get to Dallas and try to fly to Denver, then rent a car and drive to Vail

We tried option two and were not successful. We contacted our sorority sister, Katie who lives in Dallas, and she was great! She said she could pick us up and we could stay with her! Oh how dz pays off again.

So, Katie came and picked us up and we went to this great bar in Uptown Dallas. Katie ran into a friend of hers there on our way out, and then we found ourselves back at Katie's cute house. As we were getting ready for bed, her friend that she ran into at the bar texted her a picture of herself with Sean from the bachelorette!!! Apparently he was there the entire time which means he was there when we were!!!! Damn me! Why am I NOT observant?!?!

Anyway, we haven't figured our plan out for tomorrow. That's why you should keep posted for more details to come!