1:15 am

Dec 2 2022

Up for the day. Finished packing up the last minute things and getting hubby and my mom up. Headed to Cancun is just hubby and I but hitchhiking a ride to the airport is my mom. She’s headed to Vegas.

Everyone is up and ready. We load up and are on the road at 2am. Do to known construction the ride is the back way so we arrive at 2:55am. Right on time we think to ourselves. Drop mom at her terminal and head to the parking garage. Notice mom forgot the batteries to her wheelchair in the van so we grab those too.

United told us to be at the airport 3 hours early for our international flight – which translates to 3am. We get in the airport only to see no employees anywhere. American Airlines, Delta, United, TSA…. Nowhere to be found. Silently grateful I head out to find mom and deliver her wheelchair batteries. Something we learned at GRR is its all 1 building. I just walked to the other end and quickly found her.

Heading back to United and hubby. As we sit wondering where the staff is we slowly start to see tsa show up A nice maintenance crew told us the airline staff don’t start until 4 am. Even taking into consideration getting moms batteries to her, we are still an extra 45 min early. This wouldn’t normally be a big deal but when you are starting your day at 1am that 45 minutes is critical.