Finally made it

We left our home Friday morning at 11:30 am. We got to the Salt Lake Airport at 2:15 pm. Our flight was supposed to leave at 4:30 pm. Arik got a special pass so that he could go through security and sit with us until we left. (What a blessing!) As we walked passed the big board that tells departure times I noticed that ours now read 5:00 pm. 30 minutes late not bad. Then at 5 they told us that Denver had a ground stoppage meaning no one was flying into or out of Denver. (That is where our layover was.) They said we were going to try again at 5:30 pm. At 5:45 pm they told us that we were for sure leaving at 6:30 but that all connecting flights had been cancelled. (Great!) So, I went and waited in line to change my plans and was then told that my connecting flight was still okay and that all others were cancelled. Our flight didn't leave until 7:10 and our flight to San Antonio left at 8:20 so we would have to run to our gate and pray that they would wait for us. We finally took off. As we landed in Denver the pilot told (the 16 of us flying to SA) that the plane we wanted would be at the exact gate that we landed at. I was so grateful. We boarded and landed in SA at 12:30 in the morning (11:30 time in Idaho). We are having fun so far and love it.