After a relatively uneventful day of travel we made it back to rainy Oregon late last night. Our flight leaving Asheville was delayed about an hour and a half, which ended up working out well. Originally our layover in Chicago was going to be about three hours. So we still weren’t in danger of missing our connecting flight and got to hang out at the Asheville airport longer, which was more comfortable and had free wifi.
It was still extremely cold in Asheville yesterday. When I got up it was only 12 degrees and -5 with the wind chill. Since we were on a semi small plane between Asheville and Chicago we had to walk outside to get into the terminal. I thought it was funny that Chicago felt warm compared to what we had been used to.
While trekking to the other terminal for our connecting flight, we got to go through the rainbow tunnel again.
Lots of colorful lights!
Finally on the last leg of our trip home.
Almost home!
After getting to Salem after midnight, we all dispersed from the shelter’s parking lot to go home and adjust back to this time zone before we meet back up on Sunday morning to put the finishing touches on our clinic. Just two days until we do our first surgeries in our clinic!
Trent picked me up in Salem last night and greeted me with flowers… awww! But even more impressive was that he cleaned the house for me :) I’m glad to be home!