Sitting under the information boards at O’Hare. Everyone else looks as tired and confused as I feel about now.
And the prompt for this week is:
JUMP!!
Go:
Just sittin’ here, waitin’. I want to jump — yes, I do. In fact, I signed on to jump many months ago — maybe a year ago?? That’s when Deidra invited me to consider coming to Omaha and being a Pastor-in-Residence for a bloggers’ retreat she was dreaming about. And it even had the verb, ‘jump’ in the title!
I thought about it. I prayed about it. I talked to my husband about it. He said, “Sure! Jump!” So, here I am.
Except.
I’m not here, yet.
I’m sitting in the bowels of O’Hare airport, waiting for what I hope will be my third-time’s-a-charm flight out. I came out from CA yesterday, flying into Chicago to make the transfer to Omaha.
However, yesterday was one of the biggest thunderstorms on record in these parts and 300 flights were cancelled!
So, I’m not jumping just yet.
Yesterday’s flight went kaplooey, so I hiked out to a hotel (all those near the airport were full – 300 flights, remember?), taxied back this morning to fly into Denver.
DENVER? To go to Omaha??
Yup. And then a tranfer from American to United to get back up to Omaha.
Except.
After seating all passengers on the Denver flight, a mechanical malfunction grounded the plane.
Yes, really.
So. A kindly ticket agent searched and hunted. Yesterday, there were NO direct flights to Omaha from Chicago until the weekend. Today, she found me a seat! It required a 5 hour wait — but hey, I’m in one place, the flight is shorter once it takes off, and I will actually get there sooner than if I’d gone to Denver.
So, JUMP! — here I come!
STOP
Joining Lisa-Jo’s as I sit and I wait. Such a great community over there – try this prompt business – you’ll like it!