Day 1 Hopefully Not a Taste...

Of things to come! H and I woke up at 7:00 this morning, turned to each other and said "oh my gosh we are really, really leaving today!! Yippee!!" After months and months of planning, organizing, getting ready for Christmas and Thanksgiving both at once, then planning and stressing further-the trip is here!! Heather picked us up plenty early. I am a sucky traveling companion...until we get on the plane..I drive H to madness with my neurosis. After much obsessive checking and re-checking my luggage, passport, boarding pass..I only misplaced my boarding pass once and had to reprint it.. I checked the flight, it said on time, passengers boarding onto the flight in Atlanta. The plane was coming here to pick us up...we talked nervously the whole car ride. Thank goodness Heather is one of our more patient children and she acted as if we were just being "cute" blabbering all the way. My nervousness started to subside the minute we walked in the ABQ sunport door..whew! Oh wait, not so fast! Got in line to check in and I noticed the flight displayed the worst word a nervous, neurotic traveler can hear. "DELAYED" oh chit! We can still make our connection, right? Nooooo! Seems Delta had other plans. "we re-routed you on American. You will arrive in Santiago 2 hours later" which would not be too bad, I am so flexible..:/ except we just lost our "premium economy" seats on the 10 hour flight from the US to Santiago, Chile..I was not a happy camper..I know Iunm usually so calm in these situations, just ask my kids! :) but my fit throwing did get a $100 credit on future Delta flights-what future flights after this? The woman at the American counter said "well I guess I can tell you this, DELTA stands for "Don't...Ever..Leave..Town...Again... Hmmmm. Who knew? Delta I have just broken up with you and your economy premium seats! So I have taken some deep breathes, has some coffee and I am good o go again. We leave in an hour.... Hopefully.. Oh and I am flying naked....I left my IPhone at home!! Adios!!