Another Journey, this time to ND

Last night I went to Columbus to get ready to fly out again. I have got to plan my vacations in the summer time from now on! I spent the night with Lisa and she is watching Griswald for me while I will be in North Dakota. She had bought Griswald a Christmas outfit which is really appropriate since he is name for Clark Griswald of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation fame. The Santa outfit was really cute and he didn't even mind it. I think it was keeping him warm. Lisa deserves a medal for taking people to the airport. She got up at 4:30a this morning to take us to airport and on a Saturday at that. I dressed warm, trying to always be prepared. The flight to Minneapolis was non eventful which is a good way for flights to be. When we landed at Minneapolis we were told that it was -1 degrees air temp. That is cold! Soon enough we boarded the plane headed to Grand Forks, North Dakota. As we were settling in, the pilot announced that there would be a delay while the airplane was refueled. It didn't need fuel to make it to Grand Forks, but it would need it before it's return flight to Minneapolis. According to the pilot, the fuel could not be got at Grand Forks as their fuel was frozen. So Minneapolis at -1 was warm? That should have been a good clue. Eventually we got off the ground and before long we landed at Grand Forks. As we landed, the pilot announced that the air temp was -18. They did not tell us the wind chill, a person can only take so much at one time and they probably figured that we would not get off the plane if we knew the wind chill temps. Amanda and Adam arrived at the airport to pick us up and she who just had a baby three days previously, was in jeans; real jeans not maternity. When we arrived at their house we got bunches and bunches of hugs from Brennen. He is so big now but he is so silly. Payton is probably the prettiest baby I have ever seen as a newborn. (excluding my three). He has the perfectly shaped head and the cutest button nose and really long toes. We have tried to get him awake all day to no avail. He wakes up just to eat. I think he might have his nights and days mixed up. All in all, it has been a good day. Amanda is just like a daughter to me and I could not miss out on this opportunity to see their latest. And I would go anywhere to visit Brennen. I will try to add some pics and will try to write more tomorrow. If my fingers don't freeze overnight....