We have been so excited about our trip this year, to Long Beach, California for my first weaving interaction with Convergence, and to meet up with my cousin, Joanne.  We didn’t want any delays in our trip so we promptly arrived at the Tallahassee Regional Airport about 2 hours early.

Unfortunately our incoming plane was about 15 minutes late, but we finally boarded.  Then we were told there would be a 45 minute delay, because bad weather in Atlanta had caused a backup for incoming flights.  An hour later we were about to leave, when a severe alert came in and grounded us.  Yes, the storm was close behind and soon the plane was rocking with wind gusts and rain was beating hard on the windows.  We sat through the storm for an hour and were then told we could leave but we would have to go out the runway to the west because the tail winds were too strong on the east side.  But as we started up the engines again, a surprise storm came & sat on the west side of the runway and we were again trapped in the midst of a storm.  Finally the weather cleared, and we took off for Atlanta several hours late.

I have been very vocal about my dislike of plane trips from Tally to Atlanta, because the planes rattle and shake and it feels like the bolts aren’t tight and the plane may fall apart.  I think when we finally took off, our plane looked pretty much just like this one.

Well,  we finally arrived in Atlanta, and were told we had grossly missed our connecting flight and could not get a flight out until morning.  This was not a good start to our wonderful trip