North Dakota - Trip 1

my husband has to travel occasionally with his work. last week he had to go to north dakota. he left very early monday morning and was supposed to get back late tuesday night - for 3 hours of work to do up there.
the high was 1 degree i think on monday or tuesday. i think the low was -20. exposed skin would freeze in 10-30 minutes, maybe less.
something was wrong with the plane he was supposed to leave on to come back to atlanta on tuesday. so the airport says they won't have a flight going out until the next morning. they give everyone a very modest voucher for dinner and a hotel. this is fine except when lee discovered all hotels within 60 miles are booked because of a big oil boom or something. and they close the airport at 10:30 and kick everyone out into the -20 degree weather. lee asked one of the airport employees what he should do and the guy said - walmart is open 24 hours.

hmmm.

luckily, i guess, a guy had found the last hotel room available apparently and offered to share it with lee. please note this is a stranger. please note - the room they had to stay in was the honeymoon suite. i know this was not funny at the time, but that part cracked me up. they brought a rollaway bed for lee to sleep on.

lee finally got home at 7:30 wednesday night. his flight from north dakota was delayed a second time that morning and caused him to miss his flight in denver. i'm glad he's home. i think he is happiest of all.

here are some pics from his trip.