Sunday, April 13, 2008

Tuesday, April 8 - Mom Arrived

There has been quite a bit happen here lately, so I will go back and create a few blogs a little late.
My mother came to the Turks and Caicos this week. We have been anticipating her trip. Getting here is never easy, though.

She left at 9:00am from CHM on Monday, April 7. The flight to Charlotte came in late, so mom missed the 11:30 flight to PLS. US Airways put her on another flight to Miami, where she made the 6:30 American Airlines flight to PLS. This flight, however, gets into Provo at 9:00, to late to catch the last Sky King flight to Grand Turk.

This caused a bunch of last minute effort to find a hotel room on Provo, rearrange the Sky King reservation, and try and get a taxi. This last effort did not get worked out. I did manage to get a room at the Comfort Suits, which is the only inexpensive hotel on Provo. I hate when the flights to Grand Turk don't go perfectly. It is a very hard place to arrive with mo knowledge of where you are going.

I called the hotel every 15 minutes starting at 9:30 to see if mom had made it. I could not get her on the phone, and she did not check in to the hotel. Finally, I went to AA.com and saw that her plane gad arrived late, at 10:00 instead of 9:00. At 11:15 she finally arrived at the hotel.

I had scheduled her on a flight to Grand Turk at 8:30 the next morning. She was able to get a taxi with other people on their way to the airport. She was able to get an earlier flight and called just before 8:00 to say she had arrived. We dropped the boys off at school and went to get her at the airport.

Thus ended her very stressful first 24 hours in the TCI. Stressful for me anyway. Tuesday was a good day here. And like has been happening lately, the sunset was marvelous. And grandma is finally here.

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