Our stay in Nashville was not as we had anticipated. We bought our tickets quite awhile before we left. The week before the weather showed it was going to be cold and might get a little snow. We didn't anticipate the worst storm that ever hit in 30 years to hit. It came in Sunday night. By Monday morning the roads were sheets of thick ice and it was raining freezing rain. It only got worse as the day went on.
We spent a lot of time in the hotel since everything was shut down...as in, every restaurant, every store, everything! It was crazy! We knew no flights were going out of Nashville and while we had hope it would be better Tuesday morning when we were scheduled to leave, we did not have much hope. We got up at 2AM and headed to the airport. We were 40 miles from the airport and it took us 3 hours. It was the scariest drive of my life! Jeff did well and we made it there without issue.
All flights were grounded, but by some miracle they decided our flight was the one they would try to get out. They worked at it for over 7 hours and finally got the area around the plane de-iced enough to turn the plane around. We were so lucky. We missed our connecting flight in Vegas, but made a flight at 7 pm on standby. Out luggage somehow made it to SLC with us and we got home around midnight. The whole day was exhausting, but very miraculous. We were so lucky to even get home and not spend a night in the airport. We met some really wonderful people while we waited and Caimbree was an absolute dream. No one could believe there could be such a good baby under such stressful circumstances. It was a trip to remember and we were so very grateful our girls were in such great hands with Jeff's mom.
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