Day 7 - Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010

Sorry for the delay in our wrap up post. Rita became very busy after our arrival back in WI. Please see Kimberly’s Facebook for the reasons why.

Thursday was simply a travel day for us. We slept as late as we could and finished packing up and checked out of the hotel. Of course, we picked up three more the awesome DoubleTree cookies on our way out. Noah ate mine!

Load up the taxi (damn are they expensive) and headed to airport. Our plane didn’t leave until 3:15 pm, but we really didn’t feel like swimming. I tried to talk Rita and Noah into taking the bus to the airport, but they wanted nothing to do with trying to load 6 suitcases into a public bus then walking about ½ mile after the bus stop. Oh well, it’s only money.

We tried to check our bags, but we were to early! So, Rita and Noah walked around for while and of course they found some stores to buy stuff! Someday I will learn.

Once we were able to check our bags we took the long wait through security and the even longer wait for our plane. But Southwest had some very comfy chairs to sit in so it really wasn’t that bad. The airplane was full of kids and two mothers who don’t know how to deal with their children. Poor Rita wasn’t able to sleep, mainly due to the noise and the kid kicking the back of her chair. I simply turned up my music, leaned forward and put my head on the chair in front of me and slept for a while.

Those Southwest people are very funny and seem to thoroughly enjoy their jobs. Like they said, we have many options to fly and they are happy we couldn’t afford anyone else but Southwest.

The only real hiccup we had was dealing with the Clarion Hotel to get the car. The rate we paid the week before was suppose to cover parking for up to 14 days but they refused to accept that and still charged me $30 to get my car back. Late Friday night I called on obtained the manager’s email address and emailed him. If I don’t hear from him by Monday I will call to get my $30 refunded.

We pulled into our driveway around 7:15 pm and Rita was gone 10 minutes later and hasn’t been home since. I am starting to think she really doesn’t want to be home. Thanks for reading my many posts – hopefully our next trip will be longer so we have even more posts. Please note, Rita has the camera at the hospital, so you will have to go to Facebook to see photos.

Now for my challenge. The next trip you take please provide daily posts of your trip if possible – I really enjoyed writing these and it helps us remember what we did everyday.