The Trip from Hell (so far)

So last Tuesday, we left for our trip to Japan. And it has been less than pleasant so far. It started when we got to the airport. We were supposed to be traveling on United. Well, since we are traveling with our dog, we obviously have his kennel. Apparently United doesn't except XL kennels so they wouldn't take our dog. After about an hour of my husband yelling at the guy at the counter and a different airline later, we booked a flight on Frontier. They actually accepted our kennel dimensions. The only problem was we weren't scheduled to leave now until 4:05 pm! Our original flight was supposed to leave at 7:40 am.. a big difference! So we go home and then come back.. everything goes smooth through security and such. We say bye to family and then get on the plane. We fly to Denver, and Denver is under a Winter Storm Warning. It took about an hour longer to land because of the storm. Once we got off the plane, we realized that our next flight to Seattle was delayed due to weather. After boarding the plane two separate times and then deboarding again, our flight gets cancelled. In fact, not just our flight but the whole entire airport shut down. There was a good 5,000 people that slept in the airport that night. We spoke to someone at the desk in the airport and rescheduled our flight to Seattle for the next day, except our flight wasn't due to leave until 9:30 pm. That put a strain on us because our next flight to Japan was supposed to leave before our flight arrived. So regardless, we booked a hotel room that was 30 miles away from the airport (which is a $60 cab ride one way). The next day, we woke up to find out our new flight to Seattle was delayed!! Are you kidding me? So there was a definite NO that we were not making our last flight to Japan. So we had to check with Matt's boss to make sure it was okay that we were going to be a week late (seeing as how the flight goes out once a week). So here we are in Seattle for an extra week, which to some might seem like a good thing. And was have had fun so far site seeing and such.. but now our main concern is getting on the next plane. There isn't a pet slot open for this weeks flight so we aren't sure what we are going to do yet! It might come to that I have to stay in Seattle for another week BY MYSELF! That equals me not happy!! Oh well.. I have faith that the Lord will get us to Japan one way or another. If I have to put on my big girl panties and go alone then that is what I have to do.