This is not exactly what we meant...

...when we said we were dreaming of a White Christmas.

E held with United for an hour and a half after they cancelled our flight to Chicago this morning. When he finally got someone on the line, our options for getting to the West Coast were: standby Monday or a flight to Chicago Wednesday night, then overnight in Chicago, then a flight to Portland Thursday. Maybe we could have done this EXCEPT the two seats were not together. Sucks.