What a Day!

So today started off with everything going in the right direction. Then about 1000am we received a message that our flight was delayed by one hour due to weather in the Chicago area. Ok, an hour delay that's not bad. Well that hour turned into two hours, pushing us to a 220pm departure time from El Paso. With this 220pm departure from El Paso we have now missed our flight to Paris from Chicago. Upon talking with the CSR at the American Airlines desk we were told our flight would not leave until 620pm from El Paso....really are you kidding me!!! Please keep in mind we have been at the airport since 1100am this morning. Finally 620pm rolls around and we board the plane and arrive in Dallas Fort Worth area. We were re-routed to Dallas. Next objective is praying that our bags were pulled from the first flight in El Paso and re-tagged for Dallas. YES...we have bags waiting for us in Dallas!! Now to find a place to stay for the night since our flight doesn't leave until 550pm the next evening. Finally found a place to stay about 4miles away from the airport. Called about 5 places before we found an open room. Turns out there is an engineering convention in town booking all the available rooms and dislodged passengers from cancelled flights from today's weather. We were told we are very lucky. Didnt feel like I was lucky. So getting ready for bed, need to be out by noon. Let's hope tomorrow is a much better day. Maybe my next blog will be from France!