The first leg of our vacation was, well, getting there! Our flight was set to leave at 3:15pm from DFW and arrive in RIC at 10:50, but when you are dealing with planes and airports that doesn't always happen!
We get there and find that our first flight was delayed an hour because of storms on the East coast (we had a layover in Newark). We were a little nervous because of flight leaving Newark was set to leave at 9:30 and if we were arriving an hour later than planned, we wouldn't have much time at Newark- we had to change terminals and that's not simple in Newark. But "thankfully" we were delayed leaving Newark (I say that we were "thankful" because we had PLENTY of time, but that meant that we would be arriving in Richmond later than planned and it was already too late for my taste!) But we did have plenty of time to eat $10 airport pizza!
Now for all you people that live in New Jersey, please don't be offended by what I am about to say! Newark Airport is a terrible airport and I don't ever want to fly through there again! We arrived in terminal C, but needed to be in terminal A. Now terminal C wasn't so bad, it was terminal A that I have issues with!
First, because there were so many delayed flights departing, the terminal was way over crowded. Second, our ticket said we would be flying out of one gate and once we got there we were told it was leaving from another gate. And about 45 minutes into waiting we were told, once again, that our gate had changed! At that point, we told ourselves that were was a good chance they would lose our luggage, but thankfully they did not! Third, it smelt terrible- like throw up! We changed seats a few times trying to avoid the smell, but we had no such luck! Even the plane had a bad smell! I was never so happy to feel us land than at that time!
The flight home was much better! We left Richmond at 7am and had a small layover in Charlotte and were back in DFW by 11! We did have to sit at the airport for about 2 hours because we didn't drive and someone had to pick us up and everyone that we knew that could have picked us up was in church and we didn't feel comfortable asking someone to miss church for us! So we just hung out and shared a $7 sandwich and a $2 bag of chips! Ha!
There were a few pros and cons to flying. While we loved that we got 2 extra days in VA, it was a bummer have to be at the mercy of the plane and airports. Had we driven we would not have had such long layovers on the way there- just a long drive! But had both flights been as good as the one coming home, then it would have been great! Also, I hated having to spend $50 to check luggage! It such a waste of money, but we really didn't have a choice since we were going to be gone for so long!
Overall, we were glad that we got to fly- it was way cheaper and A LOT faster! We probably won't get to fly for Christmas because flights are a lot more expensive during that time.
P.S. Sorry there are no pictures for this post- we didn't take any of us sitting in the airport- ha!
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