Home...finally

Well, well, well...what a day we had yesterday. It started out ok...we got up and packed and checked out of the hotel...contacted the rental car company and they said to leave the car at the airport, so that worked out really well for us. We spent the day at Antique Malls...found some great stuff...really cool antique malls too...they were huge! Anyway, it took us most of the day to go through the two we visited and then we went to the aiport, left the car at the rental and headed for the terminal.

It seems the computers were down or something was wrong because there was a huge line-up of people. We arrived there around 5:00 p.m. and didn't get through the line till 7:00. That was ok though cuz we weren't flying out till 8:00ish. We found the gate and then listened to the announcement that the plane we needed to fly out on would not arrive in Dallas until 9:45 and that we'd miss our connector in Denver. Sooooo...Up I went to find out more details and was lucky enough to get two stand-by seats on a plane leaving right that minute, so we actually flew out at about the correct time.

We arrived in Denver at 9:30 their time...our flight was also leaving at 9:30 so we had to run to our gate (and I mean run!) On the way Tom was asking me the flight number...I stopped to find our tickets, told him and then we carried on. They were calling our name when we arrived at the gate and we were the last ones on the plane and found our seats....whew.......but there was one problem.................I left the laptop on the garbage can in the terminal where I stopped to check our flight number. Oh, my God.........I lept out of my seat and ran up to the flight attendant and asked if they'd hold the plane for a few minutes. They agreed to do that and I flew up the ramp and into the terminal. I ran back to where I'd left the laptop (out in the middle of the terminal on a garbage can) and couldn't believe that it was still there. Two guys were standing looking at it...I'm sure they wondered if there was a bomb or something in it because of all the announcements they have at the airports about not leaving your bag unattended and if you see one left alone, to report it, etc. Anyway, I ran up, grabbed the bag...they both started laughing when I told them I'd already been on the plane and had to leave to get my laptop. I ran back to the gate and there was nobody there. The door was locked and I started banging on it but nobody could hear me...........sound like a bad dream yet????...sure felt like a nightmare. Anyway, I banged on the window and a young fellow looked up at me from the tarmack and I signalled to him to get someone to open the door. He smiled and started goofing around making hand signals back to me.........geez.......anyway, I guess he'd radioed someone to open the door and let me down the ramp and he was just enjoying making me crazy. So....back I went on to the plane with my laptop....and we finally got to relax till we arrived in Spokane....thank God!

Once in Spokane, of course, we found we had no luggage. All my precious scrapbooking supplies were somewhere between Dallas and Denver (who cares about our clothes!) The woman at the luggage counter said our bags should arrive at about 10:30 the next day and they'd call us then deliver them. Hopefully that has already happened today and Tom can bring them home tomorrow when he comes home. He had to stay down there to get some racks on his truck so it worked out ok. All in all, we were very lucky to get home, to make our connections and to get the laptop back after I left it behind in Denver....what a trip.

I think we are both happy to be home...was sure good to sleep in our own bed at Tom's place last night. Hopefully Tom will have no problem getting everything across the border tomorrow...guess he'll have to pretend to be a scrapbooker!

Hope you've enjoyed the blog...we keep posting on it as we do something new or go somewhere. It's kind of a good way to keep in touch with everyone at the same time.

Take care and we'll be in touch.
T&C