After a prolonged and protracted journey, we arrived in Québec City late yesterday afternoon. Two uneventful flights brought us to Washington, DC, where we learned that the third leg of our cross-country travel had been cancelled. Many thanks to modern technology, though, we were able to reschedule our flight for the following day, make a hotel reservation, notify our hosts in Québec City, and change our rental car arrangements, all while we stood waiting in line. It was pretty sweet to be able to get out of line and go on our way, without so much as a wave to the grumpy United Airlines workers. And so we were forced to spend one night in Reston, Virginia, where the girls logged a new state and saw their first-ever fireflies, and we all decided that we should
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