The trip from Roanoke was long, long, long. We got to Roanoke early and the plane arrived when it should. We were actually lined up, with the first person getting their boarding pass scanned, and the pilot came out and spoke to the attendant, who told us all to sit down again. It turns out that they found bird “remains” near the engine, which indicates a bird strike, forcing a mechanical check and clearance to fly. Problem is the mechanic had gone home, taking 2.5 hours to come back! After a 10 minute check all was fine, and we set of for Chicago.
When we got to Chicago, we docked at the furthest gate to the south of the airport, and our outgoing flight was the 2nd furthest gate to the north – about 1.5km! We power-walked to the gate, but missed the flight and were stuck in Chicago. United (the airline) gave us meal and hotel vouchers, and at about midnight we checked into the hotel, ordered some dinner and went to sleep. Three hours later (at 4am) we were up again to go to the airport and catch the 6am flight to Cincinnati. I managed to sleep on the 45 minute flight, which was much needed!
At Cincinnati we quickly checked into our motel, had a shower and changed, and headed off to our 8:15 meeting at St Ursula's Academy, arriving around 10:30! Fortunately we managed to send Kym at St Ursula’s an email the night before, so they were very understanding at our lateness, and we managed to avoid a note in our record books.
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