Blow me down!

I am blogging today, when I was meant to be away for the weekend in St. Moritz meeting with Orest. What happened, you say? Well, freakish weather caused me to be stranded at London's various airports for the better part of 10 hours.
My day started at the crack of 6, taking Jessie to the park in the dark. That was a trip in itself. I've never walked her in the dark before, but I had the forethought to strap a glowstick to her collar (I know it sounds odd to have a stash of glowsticks at home, but I'm a Mum, you see, and you never know when someone might need one.) and equipped myself with a flashlight. Unfortunately, this didn't prevent Jessie from being freaked out at any approaching form and her barking caused one small dog to bolt out of terror, through the gate and practically onto the road! Many apologies and scolding later...
Made it to London City Airport by 9am (after dropping off the girls to breakfast club at school) only to find that the flight before mine to Zurich had been cancelled. They gave me a boarding pass for my flight, but then looking at the departure screens it said "Indefinite Delay". What kind of information do they think they're giving you with that statement, anyway? Bizarre!
Finally, by 11am, they'd upgraded(?) the status to "Cancelled". I actually felt relief, because I can deal with "Cancelled" a whole lot easier than "Indefinite Delay".
To make a long story short, I spent the rest of my day going by tube (1.5 hours) to London Heathrow airport where they had re-booked me on an evening flight, only to have that one cancelled by about 6pm. 2 hours in a line with hundreds of other stranded passengers, I finally came away with a voucher for future travel. (I chose this option, because the earliest flight they could get me on was Friday evening. Since I was meant to be returning on Sunday evening, I saw little point in even attempting to go.)
By 9:30 pm I was at home with the girls...I may as well have been away the whole weekend, I felt that exhausted!