Holiday Chaos
So the holiday plans got mightily derailed. We planned to send Christmas and New Year's in Poland with my parents--I'm the only child and don't see them often enough so they were really looking forward to it. I was going to fly on my own, and my husband was going to join later while coming back from his work tour. See, he is a pilot in corporate aviation, and his usual tour is six days flying and five days break. The break is normally at home, but he can ask for a temporary change to his "base," meaning at the end of his tour he'd be delivered to the new "home station," and then start the next tour from there as well. This works perfect when we want to visit my parents because a) we save on tickets, and b) he gets the maximum use of his days off, without wasting more time on travel. This is how we planned it this time. I was going to fly out on the 20th and he'd join on the 23rd. But as the time for my departure was approaching, we realised t