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fenchurchWell, that made for a long day. At least I managed to get a few things done this morning, including some more prepwork for JadeCon next week.
We actually thought, for a bit there, that we weren't going to make it to Utah at all (and to be honest, I was pretty okay with that, even if it meant eating the cost of the airfare: a good excuse for not being able to make the family reunion and a few more days at home before I'd have to leave again both sounded wonderful). We left the house about three hours before our flight. We're about 25 miles from the airport, but it was getting on toward rush hour, so even with the carpool lane, we were anticipating a 45-60 minute drive. Only there'd been a rather nasty accident down in Renton, that had traffic backed up into Kirkland. We ended up getting off the freeway and taking surface streets (which were also packed, but were at least moving). It took us around two hours to make it to the airport... and we got to the desk to check our luggage about an hour before the flight was scheduled to take off. When we mentioned we'd been worried about missing the flight, the attendant just said "Not going to be a problem." Yeah, the plane we were on didn't even land until about five minutes after we were supposed to be taking off. I think we ended up leaving about 20 minutes late. Not bad, really, and it was just late enough that we were able to take a bit of a breather and get some food.
Tomorrow we drive up to a remote part of south-eastern Idaho. Supposedly, there's free wi-fi at the KOA we'll be staying at for the family reunion... I'm really hoping that's true. It's funny, because a friend of mine was just talking about how wonderful their vacation was going to be, because they were going to a resort on the coast with no cellular reception and no internet... and all I could think is that it sounds like my own personal idea of hell. :-p
We actually thought, for a bit there, that we weren't going to make it to Utah at all (and to be honest, I was pretty okay with that, even if it meant eating the cost of the airfare: a good excuse for not being able to make the family reunion and a few more days at home before I'd have to leave again both sounded wonderful). We left the house about three hours before our flight. We're about 25 miles from the airport, but it was getting on toward rush hour, so even with the carpool lane, we were anticipating a 45-60 minute drive. Only there'd been a rather nasty accident down in Renton, that had traffic backed up into Kirkland. We ended up getting off the freeway and taking surface streets (which were also packed, but were at least moving). It took us around two hours to make it to the airport... and we got to the desk to check our luggage about an hour before the flight was scheduled to take off. When we mentioned we'd been worried about missing the flight, the attendant just said "Not going to be a problem." Yeah, the plane we were on didn't even land until about five minutes after we were supposed to be taking off. I think we ended up leaving about 20 minutes late. Not bad, really, and it was just late enough that we were able to take a bit of a breather and get some food.
Tomorrow we drive up to a remote part of south-eastern Idaho. Supposedly, there's free wi-fi at the KOA we'll be staying at for the family reunion... I'm really hoping that's true. It's funny, because a friend of mine was just talking about how wonderful their vacation was going to be, because they were going to a resort on the coast with no cellular reception and no internet... and all I could think is that it sounds like my own personal idea of hell. :-p
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Date: 2008-08-08 07:49 am (UTC)Mine too!
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Date: 2008-08-08 08:02 am (UTC)Right there with ya. I just escaped from that land of eternal torment and I hope I never have to return. *clings to the internet*