I made it back from Oklahoma... barely. Yet another adventure at the airport. I arrived plenty early and checked in at the front counter. I noticed a new departing time, which was 30 minutes later than the original departure. The American Airlines attendant told me it was due to a mechanical problem, and was currently being worked on. No problem, since I had almost an hour and a half layover in Dallas anyway. I decided to sit in the lounge before going through security because I had an open water bottle and didn't want to waste it. So I sat down, sipped on my Dasani, and watched the big screen in front of me display all the flight times. As time went on, the screen continued to update and then I saw it... the flight was now delayed by 45 minutes... an hour, and finally an hour and a half. Great! Now I'll miss my connection flight. I have to work tomorrow, so that's not good. I decide to ditch the last remnants of the water bottle and crawl my way through security. I arrived at my gate to find a lot of passengers waiting angrily with no attendants manning the counter. So, I sat down and twirled my thumbs as the original departure time came and went.
Finally, two overly polite ladies arrived at the desk and announced the obvious... that our flight had been delayed. They went on to say the aircraft was not able to be fixed, so another plane was flying in from Dallas to pick us all up. At this point, one of the ladies listed about 30 connections, instructing us to come up to the counter if we were on one of these connecting flights. Of course, over half the people got in line for their new itineraries. Lucky for me, I would now be flying on Frontier airlines, and only had to walk four gates down, where my new flight was boarding rather soon. When I checked in at the Frontier gate to get my seat assignments, they gave me 3A for the first flight to Denver, and 1A from Denver to Seattle. Sweet! I was flying first class!
Not so fast. Apparently Frontier does not have first class. They believe in the philosophy that every plane should have one class... and that would be coach. For the next five hours, I stared at a tiny television screen in front of me, displaying the same adds over and over again. DirecTV in the sky, for only $8. "Just swipe your credit card and your life could be so much better. You could be watching so many wonderful things and not bored out of your skull." I have to confess, if it was Saturday, Sunday, or Monday night, I would have gladly shelled out the cash to watch some football. Sadly, it was Tuesday, and there is nothing on tv on Tuesday. So I sat in my midget chair, twirled my thumbs some more, and stared at the flashing screen.
Enough of the trip home. The week visiting my sister was great! I spent lots of time with her, Johny, Calvin and Maya. Anna was so exhausted, and Maya is not helping in that department, as she does not like to sleep. I firmly believe she is training early to be a doctor. Unfortunately, Anna and Calvin came down with some virus and were not feeling well. I think even Johny got it after I had left. I was so happy to be able to help out in a time of need. Cleaning up, cooking, shopping, playing with Calvin, holding Maya, chatting with Anna and Johny in the evenings. It was all so much fun and I really felt blessed being able to help out where I could. Johny even showed me some pictures of construction jobs he has worked on. They all looked beautiful and it is obvious he does excellent work. One day I'm going to steal him away from my sister to work on something for me. LOL!
I slept in Calvin's room during my stay. Obviously he is not used to anyone sleeping in his room. Each night as I would quietly make my way into bed, Calvin would start to rustle around in bed, see me moving around, and then stand up in his crib. He would cry out, "Hold? Hold?". So I would pick him up and hold him for a little bit, and then put him back in bed and tell him it was sleepy time. After telling Anna about this, I guess I'm just supposed to tell him to go back to bed. So, I used that strategy for the last few nights I was there.
I did take lots of pictures while I was there. I've picked a few of my favorites and will post them below.
Calvin loves his storybooks...
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