Travel Headaches for our trip to Puerto Rico

On Thursday (before we were suppose to leave for out trip) we got a call telling us that our flight had been canceled from Indianapolis to Newark, NJ because of the big snow storm they were getting hit with. I had a pretty good idea that this was going to happen since the news had said that they were already canceling and delaying flights before the snow was even there. After that call I started to look at flights towards the south to get to Puerto Rico. We had two options get up at 230 AM to catch a flight to Cleveland to Newark or get a flight to Orlando (which were pretty easy to come by) and get into Puerto Rico at 230 AM. Well after a long process of phone calls I was assured that the weather would be fine and that we should still try to get to New Jersey. So we booked a flight to Cleveland then to Newark. From there we would hop on a flight to Puerto Rico.

So Matt and I raced to get things packed because our original flight was at 2 PM so we thought we had plenty of time on the contrary we now needed to get to bed early so we could get up at the butt crack of dawn which ment that we needed to have most things packed before we headed to bed.

Well 2:30 AM came around way to quickly and Matt and I were off the the races. We got ourselves around by 3 AM. We got Joel out of bed at 315 thinking he would stay a sleep or fall back asleep in the car (he almost always falls asleep in the car) Well course things didn't go according to plans and Joel never went back to sleep.

Here we are off to the airport at 330 AM. We et checked in and all our flights were on time as far as we knew when we boarded our plane to Cleveland. We arrive in Cleveland to find out that our plane to Newark was delayed an hour. So we went to eat breakfast with Alison (Matt's sister who drove to Cleveland to catch the flight with us to Newark). After breakfast we found out our flight had been cancelled (which I thought would probably happen) . So we decided to try and fly south this time isntead of flying into the snow storm. We booked a flight to Orlando where my parents picked us up so we didin't have to sit in the airport until our 11:15 PM flight to Puerto Rico. After a nice visit with my parents we headed back to the airport to get on our next flight. We got to our ultimate destination at 3 AM. So after traveling for a total of 24 hours and doing both options we were first presented with . We got a rental car and headed to a hotel close to the airport to sleep.