Airport hell

We leave the house at 6am ET to catch our 7:45am flight. Curbside check-in can't check us in since the flight is delayed. When we get to the gate they think we'll be leaving at 9am, they tell us they are waiting for a part from LaGuardia. At 9am they still don't know what's wrong or if they can fix it, the part they are still waiting on is to diagnose the problem. At 10am they announce that the flight is canceled due to Hydraulic problems. Fae has been trooper and even caught a nap throughout the delay. Most of the people get in line or head to the counters, we call United directly. We get on a 1:30pm flight to Chicago, that's 7 hours after we got to Newark airport. We should have been in SF by now! Now we had to get our seats and find our luggage. The system couldn't find our new reservation so back on the phone with United. Once that was resolved we had to make sure our luggage got to SF. The rep at the counter put a request in for our bags to be transfered. We weren't feeling confident that our luggage would make it. When we went downstairs to baggage claim we found our bags on the carousel and one United rep looking quite overwhelmed. We had to pull our own bags and get them to the baggage rep, if we didn't who knows where they would have ended up.

We got to have lunch with Saba along with some backup diapers while we waited for our next flight.

The flight to Chicago was nice because we got to fly in first class. We all slept for most of the flight.

We had a 2 hour layover in Chicago and were delayed on the runway for about 20/30 mins. When we finally get to SFO @ 8pm. While waiting for the luggage to come out we spot one of our bags by the United baggage counter. Turned out our luggage got there before we did. How did that happen??

We finally got home at 9:30pm PT. Exhausted!