Funny Story Friday-Crazy Momma!!

This picture was taken at Don's Seafood in Hammond, LA

(no, that is not a real alligator)

 

You may be asking, why were we eating at Don's in Hammond when we have them in Baton Rouge.....well that is such a funny story!!

On the first weekend of September Dani was scheduled to fly here for Labor Day weekend. I had to call and change something last minute with the flight arrangements and while on the phone with the airline I realized....

I BOOKED HER FLIGHT ARRANGEMENT BACKWARDS!!!!!!!

(from Baton Rouge to Houston instead of Houston to Baton Rouge)

 

AHHHHH!!!! This was seriously a worst nightmare of mine coming into reality!!!

 

I was in a panic!! It was about 4 hours until she was supposed to arrive and I DID NOT know what to do. The lady at United airlines said there were ZERO flights available until Labor day??!!! WHAT??? That is not ok, we Hs to get her here!! Not only would we hate to miss out on any precious time we have with Dani, but Josh's parents who live nearby to Dani's moms house in Houston, were out of town and Dani's mom was going out of town as well, so we HAD to get her here.

 

Luckily the United lady found a flight into New Orleans that night which normally wouldn't be an issue at all, we had plenty of time to get there. However, this was about 1 day after Hurricane Isaac made landfall over New Orleans and surrounding parishes and had FLOODED areas all around New Orleans, specifically one area called Laplace which as a result had the interstate to New Orleans CLOSED!!!!!

 

We decided we needed to get in the car immediately and figure out our route to get there as we were driving. I instantly began praying because by what we were hearing on the radio and through facebook traffic was a mess and it was going to take A LONG TIME to get there....I was never going to be forgiven for this one!! I just started praying that "somehow God please make a way for us get to Dani on time" because in reality we just didn't have enough time with all of the different obstacles we were facing.

 

On our way down the interstate we heard that the interstate at Laplace had just been re-opened, HALLALUJAH!!!! God is awesome. We still had about 30 more minutes make up but at least we wouldn't be over an hour late getting her (which isn't a problem really since they are required to keep her under supervision until we get there, but who really wants that to happen??)

 

Meanwhile we get a text from Dani that Neal Armstrong's body is being flown into the airport in Houston so she was delayed by 30 minutes!!! I teared up and just prayed thanking God for intervening in our situation. Even though it was a horrible mistake that I made that has haunted me in my dreams, it all worked out. Josh was so sweet and really didn't rub it in too bad :)

 

So, on our way home we decided we were worthy of a delicious seafood dinner at Don's!!

 

Total trip time was approximately 6 hours and I am sure that this is one of those stories that will haunt me for a long time....crazy mommy!!

But, what really matters is that we got Dani here safely and we had a great, long weekend together!!

HAPPY FRIDAY YA'LL!!!