Happy (Belated) Thanksgiving

Sorry for my long absence. I was away for Thanksgiving. I hope everyone had a good week/weekend. I am not going to go all through mine because I am SO backed up at work. Basically, I have 5 more days of work before I go off on vacation again. *smile* This next trip is to Seattle to see My Baby!! Ok, not my baby, my little niece who is the cutest thing in the world. I’d post a picture, but my sister would flip out if she ever found out. She has issues with the internet, but I won’t go into that now. Here’s how my trip started last week Wednesday. I’ll go into the rest of it when I have more time.

Well, It all started when I flew into Detroit (It was snowing) and almost missed my connection. If anyone knows that airport, I had 5 minutes to get from Terminal A to Terminal C. Needless to say, I got my exercise that day! My fight to Cincinnati was short. When I got there it was good to see my old college roommate and her brother. I haven’t seen them in years. She moved to Cincinnati not to long ago, but the whole family is from Louisville KY. Now, I got in at 6 something. My roommate’s cousin was supposed to be flying in from Germany at 7 something, so we were going to wait for her. We were all going to drive down to Louisville to see the rest of the family. Well, apparently, she missed her connection in New Jersey and didn’t bother to give anyone details. She called her sister in South Carolina to say that she would be arriving at 9:30. Well, for one thing, Why didn’t she call the person that was meeting her at the airport?? AND, There was no damn flight getting in at 9:30!! There was an 8:50 flight and a 10:00 flight! Now, this cousin always causes problems! She is always broke, constantly “needs” stuff, and just generally a very irresponsible person. The reason we were waiting for her wasn’t actually to pick her up. This fool went to Germany for an undetermined amount of time and parked in the airport parking lot! She actually bought a one way ticket and thought it would be a good idea to park in long term parking. Alright. Whatever. That’s her business. But, then she had the nerve to fly back with NO MONEY!! And when I say no money, I mean literally, not a dollar in her pocket. Oh yeah, did I mention that she was traveling with her 3 year old son? He is the only reason that we waited for her, otherwise she would have had to figure out another way to get the money to get her car out of the parking lot. Instead, we hung out at the airport till about 11 (her flight was late!) and paid for her parking, gave her $10 emergency cash, and my roommate gave her her cell phone since the girl had used up all of the minutes on her phone. Oh yeah, did I mention that she was going to drive back to Louisville, KY after flying all day with no money and no phone and a 3 year old who has been kept inactive for hours? Now, about 9:30 when we were trying to figure out when she was coming in, we decided that we were just going to stay in Cincinnati for the night and drive down in the morning, but by 11 we had a second wind (or should I say they had a second wing!) I passed out in the back seat of the truck while we drove down to Louisville. I only woke up long enough to kiss Maw Maw (my surrogate Grandma) hello and climb into bed! And that was day one of my vacation.