Sunday, July 31, 2011

Time to Go Home

We slept OK and I got up at 5:30 to take my shower and finish packing our backpacks and carry-on. We ate a quick last buffet breakfast and were ready to disembark by our appointed time of 8:45 a.m. We found our other 3 bags, got through customs and found our transportation to the airport. We were NOT in a hurry since our flight didn’t leave till 3 pm.

After going through the line TWICE (you can’t check your bags for Southwest until 4 hours before your flight), we found restrooms and Tony listened to his voice mails. Mom & Dad’s flight didn’t leave for a while so we went down to their concourse to kill some time until they left. Then on the way back to our concourse we discovered a Chinese food place that had orange chicken! We’ve all fallen in love with orange chicken recently. We decided that’s what we wanted for “supper.” We stopped at the Children’s Play Area for about 45 minutes and Meighan ran the whole time. When it was time to go to our gate, Tony went and got some orange chicken, picked us up and we were off to our gate. We left on time. Meighan slept most of the flight waking up to eat some chicken. I was getting sicker.

We stopped in Denver and assumed we just stayed on the plane. Not so this time. Our flight number stayed the same but we had to change aircraft. Turned out the aircraft we had to change to had to have some maintenance. We ended up getting home 2 hours later than we were originally scheduled. And our bags and the stroller didn’t get transferred. So we had to take the time to make a claim and have it delivered the next day.

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