Oh the Delay!

Can you believe it? We, all 14 students and one professor, got to the airport yesterday, packed for international travel, and what is happening? Nothing. Absolutely nothing was happening or going to happen. The line to the counter was backed up past all the ropes and extending towards the automatic doors. Our professor, was pale faced and on the phone with the travel agents from the second I spotted him.

  "Blimey! This is not looking good" I thought to myself. I did not even think to check the flight status because the weather was gorgeous here, with blue skies and a nice spring temperature. But little did I know that the weather in Chicago, where we were to fly out of the country and into Dublin, shut down the airport. "Awwwwwwww Maaaaaaaaann!" this can't be happening!!! Oh but it is happening, the European trip is now delayed.

   To make matters worse because we have such a large group all flying at once, we cannot get on a plane until this Sunday.---- 4 long days away. Well since we are delaying the trip we will be adding a couple days at the end, but when all is said and done the trip was going to exactly 3 three days stays in each, Dublin, Belfast, and Sligo, with of course the two days of flight time & travel. Now the trip will be shortened by at least one day in Belfast, most likely.
   C'mon! Where is this "luck o' the Irish" or is it a misnomer I just was misunderstanding my whole life.

Sadly, I wait in limbo. Yearning for my time in Ireland. I am so ready to step foot on Irish soil and se the coastline of Ireland looking back towards America. Why can't it be now?!