Climbing on the Turtle -- July 13

There is a really nice playground in Red Hook, and we went 3 or 4 times while we were there.  It has a great little kid playground separate from the big kid part.  Hazel was especially fond of the turtle, and she was worried that it was a sad turtle.  Vivian particularly liked playing and hiding in the tunnel.

The return journey was a bit unpleasant, we hit weather in Denver again, but this time from the air.  Our flight from Dulles to Denver left the ground on time, but we were unable to land until more than an hour and a half after we were supposed to. The pilot had just announced that the flight attendants were to prepare for landing, and we would be on the ground in 15 minutes, when air traffic control sent us into a holding pattern over Alamosa for what was supposed to be about 45 minutes and then was extended...and extended...and extended.  

We missed our flight to Laramie, and United rescheduled us for a 1 PM flight the next day.  I ended up in tears at the GreenRide shuttle bus counter, where a nice young woman managed to get us onto a shuttle to Laramie,  Andrew could have rescued us, but we would have been home at about 4 AM. The nice United customer service people refunded our flight, gave us vouchers for our next plane trip (!) and meal vouchers, and they were very apologetic that they couldn't do more.  I was grateful that I didn't have to spend the night in DIA with a two year old and a one year old!  I think we will drive next time ;).

*For folks who print pictures--these were taken on my cell phone, and they just aren't very big, so they may not print well!