* OK, well, it's been an interesting 24hours (THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED).

I drove from Mammoth to Reno which was a great drive and I was reeeeeeaaaaaaalllllyy early for my flight (I know that some of you were impressed with that ;) ). Unfortunately U.S Airways was not so early - my flight was delayed by approx. 1hour (the plane hadn't turned up yet). Anyway, we boarded and headed for Phoenix (I had to go via there to get to Indianapolis) - just before we got to Phoenix there was an electrical storm right over the airport so we hung around for a while and then didn't have enought fuel to wait any longer so we had to go to Tucson (it's also in Arizona). We sat on the plane at Tucson for an hour or so and then flew back to Phoenix (fortunately despite this awful head cold I have, I had no sinus problems as we were landing each time - yay!).

Of course by the time I got back to Phoenix my flight to Indy had left and I couldn't get on another one until the same scheduled flight the next night (ie 7.22pm which is in about 4 hours from now). I looked into going via other places but there are concerns about weather in some of them also. I also looked into another airline (yes, a bit like the 'Amazing Race' but I wasn't feeling so amazing by this time) but it was ridiculously expensive. So I was going to have to call a number and hopefully get a hotel room (at a discounted rate). Anyway, a large group of people who were travelling together obviously made enough of a complaint (because although it wasn't American Airlines fault re:the weather, we would have avoided the weather if they'd been on time initially) and I overheard an American Airlines worker getting them free hotel accomodation. So I jumped on the bandwagon and ended up at the Clarion Hotel which was not bad at all (actually I wish that I'd been here in summer, the pool and spa look great)!

Anyway, I'm just about to go back to the airport and get on a plane to finally get to Indy (am praying for decent weather in Indy 'cause it's looking fine here in Phoenix). I've spent most of the day in bed trying to sleep and get over this cold. Poor Jessie&Daniel! I hope I don't sniffle round their house all week!

Will put some pix up soon of my beautiful drive from Mammoth to Reno. xoxox.

Update: yes, I made it to Indianapolis - it was amazing to fly in and see snow piled up beside the runway (I took this dodgy photo out of the window after we'd stopped) :

And here are a couple of pix of my drive from Mammoth to Reno: