Home for Christmas!

People started calling the Embassy yesterday morning, but we decided mid-morning to lay off, since the Embassy doesn't have to do what anyone says, and might get passive-aggressive if people bug them too much. So we had to wait until 3pm (Ottawa time). Narasimha bought new shoes and went to stand in line a whole hour early, so he could be the first one there at 3. His plane was supposed to leave at 4, and the airport was about 15-20 mins away, the traffic was terrible, and the city was covered in several inches of snow. Before he stood in line, we already knew his flight was delayed like 30 mins, and he had checked in online before then. So N. called me from the airport - he had gotten there fine, in plenty of time, and actually somehow was able to go through immigration there. There was a problem with his ECFMG thing (mentioned in a previous post) but the nice immigration lady believed Narasimha and actually fixed it and said he shouldn't have that problem again (if that was really that easy, I'm SHOCKED!). So Narasimha made his flight to Detroit, but it was delayed before he was on it, and again for after an hour once everyone boarded, so he missed his flight from Detroit to Minneapolis. He was in Detroit, and he actually saw our good friends from his residency at the airport - kinda random - they now live in Ohio, and they were going to Alabama for Christmas. So Narasimha was given a confirmation number for a later flight to Minneapolis, but was then told the flight was full and he would have to wait. Somehow he got on, and landed in Minneapolis after 10 pm. He got his rental, and drove home. It was super foggy, so he got home right at 3:30 am. It is so good to have him back - we'll call this our "Christmas Miracle."