Rough Re-enty due to Delta Airlines

We spent about a week on the East Coast with a trip into NYC for the American Museum of Natural History, but spent most of our time at Nancy and John's up on their little piece of heaven outside of Cold Spring.  We saw bald eagles, hawks, turkeys, deer and big black snake, all while were out picking wild raspberries, and a few black berries and blue berries too - this was a nice re-introduction to the US

We unfortunately were stuck in JFK airport for nearly 36 hours for delays of various reasons, but when our final flight was canceled after 1:00 am for weather, we were advised that Delta Airlines would not be helping us in anyway, and no hotels were available, so there we went with 2 crying kids and our little baby without further food or diapers to find a quiet gate to sleep by until our first chance for stand by the following night.  I understand that weather and things are not their fault, but with few exceptions, we were treated quite poorly by Delta Airlines staff - like "Why don't you pack more burn medicine for your daughter?, or food or diapers for the baby etc" Uh, over 3 oz, we had enough for the first 29 hours, but really - as one of their frequent fliers and sitting there on the floor with 11 thousand dollars worth of tickets I am really questioning why I should ever trust them again.

Heck, I even have a picture of one of their planes I used to think was nice looking a couple of entries down.  I know we have had just over a thousand visitors to the this blog, but like us many of you are around that 100,000 miles a year mark for the airlines so, I am urging you to think twice before purchasing airline tickets from Delta.

We missed nearly all of Frontier Days, but took in the last parade and a few minutes of rodeo and carnival - Cheyenne is a bit sleepy and slow, but nice for us to rest up and let Tess heal up a bit from her urban camping complications from the floor at the Delta terminal in JFK.  Cheyenne has great new library, named library of the year by the National Library Assoc., and one of the 10 best on National Public Radio. So, this is our office for the next couple of weeks

We will likely be moving to Arizona very soon and getting the kids started in school - it starts this Monday Aug 4th!  But the big question right now is wether we drive or dare to fly.