Phillip: We made it!

Mimi, Frank, Melissa, and Michelle came to the Jackson Hole airport to meet us at 1:30 yesterday afternoon. They waited and waited but didn't see us. Finally, they went home and got our message: We wouldn't land in Jackson until 7:30. Back in Chicago, we volunteered to be bumped from our flight and take a later one through Dallas to Jackson. Sitting in the back of the plane next to the noisy jet engine, I wondered if we did the right thing, but when I calculated that an extra 6 hours of travel just earned me about what I take home from work in a week, I felt more comfortable. We discovered an unexpected bonus when we landed: while everyone else crowded around the luggage carousel, we just walked over and picked up our bags which arrived 6 hours earlier.