Well...most of you haven't heard about the happenings of the past few days, so I wanted to let you in...
Thursday morning I was finishing up getting ready after an hour workout at the gym when I checked my messages on my phone. There was a message from my cousin Heather in tears telling me to call her back as soon as I got the message. Now to let you know, on Wednesday night she was supposed to be flying to Brazil...so thoughts are running through my head! I call her back right away and she's still in tears and a little frantic...all she says is that she's stuck in Chicago for 10 days but she's on the phone and has to call me back. So without even thinking about it i call work (I was on my way there) and tell them I can't come in because of a family emergency, and decide I'm going to Chicago. I get a hold of my aunt so I can find out what's going on and she tells me that they let her get on in Columbus OH without checking her visa. She gets to Chicago and they won't let her through because her visa had expired!
So needless to say there were a lot of ups and downs. As soon as she grabbed me at the airport she began sobbing. Her long planned 4 weeks in Brazil was quickly shortened to 2. Not something people want to go through. We spent about 7-8 hours in the airport that day trying to figure things out. United gave us food and hotel vouchers so we spent the night and ordered room service. Friday we spent the morning getting her paper work filled out and sent off and then drove back here to Normal. She will be staying with us until the 23rd when hopefully her visa will be here, and she can get on her flight at 9:30pm that evening.
Oh what a whirlwind...I'm just so thankful that she was stranded somewhere within a couple hours of family!
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