Since living in Japan for the past three years we missed out on all the Christmas festivities in SC, but this year was different. We loaded up and headed out of Altus! Our plan was to fly to SC on the 21st but as we all know how things work when you try to plan a trip sometimes it doesn’t quite work out as planned. Our layover was in Washington DC and as luck would have it our flight got cancelled! We couldn’t get a flight out until the 23rd. Thanks to United they put us up in the Hyatt in a beautiful little town close to the airport. Since we had always wanted to take the girls to DC we finally got to. We spent the day sightseeing in a snowy DC. It was the girls first time seeing snow so they were over the top excited! Our hotel also was right beside a beautiful open air ice skating rink with Christmas music playing. It just seemed magical out there on the ice. We rented a car and went downtown to see the White House and many other monuments. We had a great time in DC.
After leaving DC we finally made it to SC. We got to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas day with our family. The girls loved being with all their cousins and grandparents. They got lots of Santa stuff and lots of presents from everybody else. They had a fun time and hopefully they will cherish the memories.
Y’all will always remember that! I am so glad the girls got to experience the snow. I was so afraid you’d missed something when it snowed in Oklahoma right after y’all had left!! It looks like you had lots of fun when you got ‘stuck’ so that just proves that you never know what doors get opened when things don’t go as you planned.
By: Shannon, Bryan, Hannah and Ella on January 7, 2010
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