But the days of doubting our in-house weather woman are over. Late Saturday night, Laura noticed a winter weather advisory for the coming week. The early forecasts weren't great -- four or five inches of snow each on Monday and Tuesday. Our flight out of Madison on Wednesday wasn't yet in jeopardy. She kept checking and the forecasts only got worse, with weather.com posting on Sunday night that the upcoming storm could be "colossal." We figured our chance of flying out of a colossal snow storm weren't all that great, and went to work right away trying to work out a way we could get out of Madison ahead of the storm -- we were ready to hop on the Mega Bus from Madison to Minneapolis, which wasn't supposed to be too badly affected by the storm, to catch the second leg of our flight to LA.
Thankfully, we didn't need to do anything too drastic. We changed our flights to early Tuesday morning, with no fees. I thought, at the time, my boyish charm and wonderful phone presence convinced the Delta agent to help us out in our time of need, but turned out most major airlines were letting folks switch flights without any charges. And good thing we switched, too. Most flights out of Madison after noon today were cancelled; same with O'Hare and Milwaukee. If we didn't leave when we did, there's a good chance we'd be stuck, either wasting days stuck in the states that we should be spending in New Zealand, or worse...
So here we are in sunny Los Angeles, a day early. Tomorrow, we head to the beach for some bumming and people watching before (finally) catching our flight to Auckland at 9:30 Wednesday night.
[Today's pics aren't ours...too much traveling and not enough good photo chances. Hopefully we'll have some photo updates tomorrow.]
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