Why we are in Israel 1 day late

This is Aden writing.

When you are going to get on a plane, you hope your flight does not get delayed, or even canceled. When my family and I were driving to the airport on Saturday, I hoped none of this would happen.

Many things went wrong on our flight to Israel. Let me just tell you that on Saturday/Sunday night/morning, instead of being on a flight to London, where we would eventually get on a flight to Tel Aviv, we were stuck in the Newark Airport (and this was at 1am).

Before I get to the details of how this could possibly happen, I want to give you the details of our flight (this was how it was supposed to be).
From NC - Newark: 5:05pm Departure (Continental Airlines)
From Newark - London: 9:10pm Departure (Virgin Atlantic)
From London - Tel Aviv: 12:50 (London Time) 7:50 (US Time)

So there is the information. And the bad part of Saturday started right at the beginning, right when we got to RDU.
We were checking in and we were all excited until the man at the counter said we were delayed. So the flight now was at 7:30 instead of 5:05. And he also said that the flight was probably going to be canceled. Every flight to Newark was delayed or canceled because of storms in Newark. The man at the counter said that he would try and put us on another flight. He did. The flight was a 1:00pm flight to Newark that had still been being delayed and was now set for a 7:09 flight. However, there still was a chance that the flight would be delayed. So we hurried through security and to the gate where the plane was. But somtime around a half an hour later the flight was delayed another hour!
Remember that we still had to catch a Virgin flight to London at 9:10! And if the flight was delayed a whole hour so it took off around 8, we would miss the flight by a half hour!
So my dad started calling and calling the Virgin 1-800 number to see if there was anyway we could make that flight or get us on another flight. They couldn't help him much. And neither cou;\ld the Continental people. They all told us to go see the Virgin Atlantic office and then if that didn't work try the Continental office. We got on the plane leaving for Newark and got to newark around 9:30, but we were sitting around for a whole hour more b/c they didn't have a gate for us.
When we got there the Virgin Atlantic office was closed. There was ine guy working at the Continenal office. He tried to help us. He said that someone had set up a flight for the next afternoon for us but had not finished it so we had to tickets, just the reservation. That someone was my grandmother. But the man couldn't print us the tickets. So we were all very sad and we still had no flight. We ended up taking a taxi to my grandparents house in New York to sleep for the night.
When I woke up Sunday morning at 9:30 and got out of bed, i found out that my dad had stayed up most of the night trying the get a flight and he did (what would we do without dads!). The flight was the exact same flightas yesterday but a night later. We ended up spending the day in New York, which was a lot of fun.
When we got to the Newark airport, the man at the counter for Virgin Atlantic said that we had to pay a fine for switching flights. My dad said that Virgin had said over the phone that they were protected and wpuld not have to pay a fine. There was arguing for a few minuets but we ended up have to pay a fine which was...... 200$ per ticket. Woo hoo. 1000 dollars gone. But, everything at the airport went smoothly after that and we got on the flight to London. Half a day later we got onto a flight to Tel Aviv. Everything was okay.

But there was 1 small issue. When we were getting our bags and we couldn't find one of them. And my mom had also lost a pair of sandals. So we went to the lost and found and the people will look for the bad and the shoes. And that was it. We then got to the house in Tel Aviv.

So here I am finishing a very long explanation.