Anxiety Delays

I didn’t sleep last night because of the travel anxiety. Mindy has been in Vegas for the past week helping get ready for the wedding. My job was to bring the kids and Noah’s best man out to the wedding. Unfortunately it turned out that my anxiety was well founded. We missed our first flight due to security delays and ended up having to pivot to another much much longer flight out of a completely different city in order to make it before the wedding. Fortunately everything went well with that and we arrived in Vegas at midnight. A far cry from the original 8 am, but still before the wedding.
I hate flying, i am fairly certain the same 25 hours we invested into hellish air travel today would have gotten us there on a high speed train if such a thing existed in this country.
Update: I forgot to mention that all four kids were amazing sports and super helpful throughout the various stages of our travel adventure. Nina reminded me of her mom, she was constantly analyzing each new change to our itinerary and figuring out contingencies for if things went wrong. I was super tired and she really kept is on track. It’s a strange and happy shift in paradigm when children step up to fill a role and you end up relying on them. I guess that’s ultimately the goal of caregiving/ parenting. But this is the first time I experienced it with such salience.