Travel Woes

Our blog was recently added to our friends Sinziana and Mark’s blog which made us realize how long it’s been since we posted. No guarantee we’ll keep this up on a regular basis, but here is an attempt to getting back into the groove of things in the blogging world.

We should be hanging out with family in the bay area in CA right now… but we’re not and are still in Champaign! We were expecting to leave bright and early this morning (planned to leave for Springfield around 4 am) so we went to sleep early. Manish jumped up in bed to his cell phone ringing thinking that the alarm he had set went off but it was a call from a 1-800 number, so he promptly went back to sleep. Then Anu got a call and she had the presence to realize that this could be more than just a junk call. American Airlines informed us that our flight was delayed out of Springfield, so we would not be able to make our connecting flight in St. Louis. So we called and had them change our tickets so that we fly out of Chambana at 3 pm. While we were driving to the airport to catch this flight our phones rang, another great message in the tune of how things had gone the whole day. Our flight was canceled and now we’re booked on a flight out of Chambana tomorrow morning connecting through Chicago. Hopefully the wind will calm down and we’ll get out of here tomorrow.

Anyway, enough griping about travel woes, at least we are at home and comfortable. Hopefully we will have a better day tomorrow. On another note, we are thinking of buying a camera. We want a small upgrade over our Canon A95 (which died unexpectedly and suddenly with its eye (lens) wide open. So we are looking at the Canon S5 IS and the Canon Digital Rebel. The rebel might be more than what we need, we’ll need to do some more research on it. Hopefully we can get a deal right after Christmas. Manish has been itching to take some cool pictures of the snowy weather, and Anu has been wanting to document some of her winter projects.