TIRED, CRABBY AND A LITTLE BIT SALTY

I am safe, but I am not happy.  Currently, I am sitting in the hotel room of an airport just 5 miles outside of Atlanta's airport. Yesterday, I boarded the plane from Minneapolis to Atlanta with my friend Megan Manion...all was smooth. We then sat in Atlanta's airport for about 4 hours. We boarded our plane at 11:40pm as scheduled...We then spent the next 4 hours sitting on the plane while some little man futzed around with wires/cords/etc. The pilot's voice came over the loudspeaker announcing that it was no longer safe for us to fly to Lagos because he was about to be on overtime and that's illegal for pilots. Blah, blah blah. Sadly, we all slumped off the plane at 3am. Frustrated and tired, we all re-routed our flights until today at 5pm. The Delta airline had no hotels, but Sally, another UW student, had talked to her mom earlier in the day and she booked us a hotel just in case things went awry...and THEY DID! Thanks to Sally's mom we shuttled over to the hotel at 6am...sleepless in Atlanta :( After a quick visit to the Waffle House, the 5 of us then shared a bed in the hotel. We are currently showering/getting ready for the day. Our flight number is 9871 and we are on schedule to leave at 5pm which will put us in Lagos at approx 11am tomorrow. Luckily, everyone going on the trip is in Atlanta now, so we will be travelling as 1 big group. A few people had delays/stuck refueling/etc, but now we are all together. We are with the director of the program now, safe and showered. PLEASE ENJOY THE PICTURE ABOVE AND SOAK UP THE FRUSTRATION AS WE WAITED FOR OUR SHUTTLE :)