Brothers Day

A few weeks ago when Nick was visiting Chris in Houston, they devised a plan...
one they knew they'd probably be able to talk Dan into...
 "Hey, you know that weekend Marty will be in town and Nick doesn't have any races?
Shall we all go to LA for one last Dodgers game before Nick leaves?"

So the plan was put into motion. A boys trip to the Dodgers vs Red Sox on a Saturday afternoon. 

Marty and Lizzie would come out Friday evening. Chris a late flight after work.

They'd all fly to California mid-morning and would be home before midnight.
Late, but not too late. Marty's Spartan race was Sunday morning. 

The plan was perfect.

Until the CrowdStrike incident. 

Where every company using Microsoft Windows lost all computer activity

and every Delta flight was delayed or cancelled.

Marty and Lizzie had a three-hour delay.
Chris' flight was cancelled. As was every other flight from Houston and surrounding areas. 

And by the time the flight was cancelled, every morning flight was booked.
Dan left no stone unturned searching for alternative options 

and found a flight from Houston to Las Vegas. 

Chris would spend the night on the strip and the boys would stop and get him on their way to California.

His flight was delayed hour after hour, but he finally boarded his flight at 11:00 p.m. 

And then after they boarded, the flight got cancelled because the pilots had timed out, 

and they had to deplane.

By midnight we arrived home with Marty, Lizzie and Emi and Dan desperately looked for other options, for Chris. But eventually had to admit they were out of luck. There were simply no flights to anywhere near Los Angeles or Salt Lake.

Chris was a good sport about missing out. What can you do in such a crazy situation?

But in a last minute Hail Mary, after the rest of us had gone to bed, 

Dan found a 5:00 a.m. flight from Austin to SLC.
And Chris caught an Uber for the 2 1/2 hour drive from Houston to Austin and a Delta

rep was confident the flight would depart.

Chris arrived home in SLC at 7:00 a.m. and was able to sleep for three hours before they left.

And the rest is history.

Eleven innings and a walk off, bases loaded win for the Dodgers.