And on this day last year...

... we woke up very early to learn that our flight into Haiti was cancelled due to weather.

I tend to be pessimistic, but that morning when I saw the cancelled flight information on our hotel room TV, I really had hope that perhaps the status would change. We were watching the weather channel and the hurricane seemed to be north of Haiti. Of course, things didn't change and that hurricane did a loopty-loo right above Haiti. It was unbelievable to watch what happened with that storm on the very day we were to go pick up our boys.

My post from 9/2 last year can be read here.

On top of the cancelled flight, we had to deal with waiting three more days to depart. Terri was with us, and she had lots of work back home calling her name. She decided to fly back that night as planned and then fly back to Miami Thursday night so she could stay with Tristan on Friday. We are forever grateful to her! That morning she booked a rental car for us so we could travel to central Florida to stay with my Dad for a few days. She just, in general, took care of us and was a great source of encouragement during a really rough time.

By lunchtime we were on the road. We made a stop to visit the Rockstar's and then continued on to my Dad's house. We got there very late that night and introduced him to Tristan. While it was not our plan, it was so wonderful for Tristan to meet his Grandpa so early on. He was only 18 days old.