Crazy Wedding trip & Covid taking out half of the wedding party. | Forum

My wife, sister & I were scheduled to fly out Sat. to Page, AZ for our son's wedding on Tues. 6/7. As we were getting ready Sat. morning an alert pops up on all of our phones saying that our flight was cancelled due to lack of crew & we were re-booked on a flight out on Sun. Not happy about it not much we could do.

We land in Flagstafff & pick up the car rental & drive to Page...a 2.5hr trip. All went well. The wedding went off without a hitch & we had rented a nice pontoon boat on Lake Powell for the reception. Let me tell you Lake Powell is breathtaking!!

So leaving Lake Powell after the reception the rental car breaks down. Now I'm pissed. I managed to limp back to the Airbnb we were all staying at (all 9 family members). I call Enterprise & tell them what happened & they said I have to call Roadside assistance. There wasn't anything they could do until at 8:00am the next day & to call back. I called back at 8:00 on Wed & they scheduled a flatbed to pick up a new car in Flagstaff & drive it to us & pick up the disabled car. That took 6.5hrs...the day was half shot. & to make matters worse the brides family were heading to Sedona & dropping off the newlyweds for a flight to Fla for their honeymoon. We all had to be out of the house by 10:00 & we had no place to go to wait for the car. We called a taxi & went to the local Holiday Inn Express & the Mgr was nice enough to let us stay in the lobby until the flatbed w/ the new car arrived. The mgr at Enterprise was a great help in getting the ball rolling & credited the whole rental ordeal.

Our new Airbnb was ready at 4:00 so by the time the car arrived & we ate lunch it was time to get to the new Airbnb. We had a great time seeing the sites & taking tours...all were exceptional. But boy oh boy is it hot out there. You can't drink enough water!!

We leave on Sat to head back home to Philly, my sister wasn't feeling too good & chalked it up to the heat & dust we inhaled all week. No one gave it a second thought. We wake up Sun & I've got the chills & sore throat. Then the text arrives from the bride saying her mom wasn't feeling well either & took the rapid test & it was positive. Oh crap we all said. We called my sister, she took the test & she was positive. I tested positive but my wife tested negative.

With all that's going on our son & his new bride got tested & they were both positive. They both had the chills & sore throat & they had to cut the homeymoon short & rent a car to drive home to LA. The resort gave them & full credit & so did the airline. Out of the party of 9, 5 of us tested positive. What a mess. I'm sure down the road we'll be laughing about the whole ordeal & will conjure up many memories about the wedding trip.

The only bright side is my work wants me to stay home for the rest of the week which gives me time to really work on setting up the new Maggie LRS!