Home again, home again, jiggety jig

I am back. It was an interesting sorta trip. Plenty of good, but had it's share of low points. We started with a four-hour delay at the Fort Wayne airport (after our original flight was canceled). Finally made it to Chicago's O'Hare, had to run through the airport almost from one end to the other, and ran right onto our supposed 4-hour flight to San Diego. The flight was pretty good, but it was taking longer than usual. We finally "tried" to land... TWICE! It was too foggy, so we went to LA and they bussed us the two hours down to SD. Instead of arriving at 6 pm, we arrived at 2 am. And instead of a 7-hour trip, it was seventeen!!! Argh.

Then... we completely lost Friday! After visiting a Mexican restaurant in Old Town San Diego, Jane and I went to bed at 10 pm Thursday and didn't get outta bed until 8 am Saturday. And we were in SEPARATE BEDS!!! Three of the six of in our group were sicker than dogs. Still not 100%, but MUCHO better.

We finally made it to the Sunday departure, and... guess what? It was delayed. We missed our flight from Chicago to Fort Wayne, but they put us up in a super swanky hotel. Too bad we were only there for like six hours. So we're set to leave Monday morning, and you know the story... that flight was delayed too. :) We did finally make it home in only 30 minutes from Chicago.

It's not like the whole trip was bad though. I will post about the conference later; and San Diego; and the cool place we stayed. But let me say... for someone who has never liked to fly... the take-offs on this trip were awesome. We left Fort Wayne in the snow, and just when you pop above the clouds.......... it is just too cool. Taking off over San Diego was neat too. Seeing all the places along the ocean; then flying over the desert... I had never flown over the desert. Amazing. Perhaps the coolest part was coming into Chicago at night. We circled over the lake and it was like a light show from down below. Even flying into Fort Wayne was cool. I've never seen our fair city from the air. Only wished we would have come in on another runway so we could have seen our house. Ah well. I'll say this, taking off in Fort Wayne is MUCH better than taking off in Indy. Nice and smooth.

Well, I just went through 160 emails, the Tombstone deluxe is cooking, and I hear my recliner calling.

Peace, peeps. Later.