... but really I have been away. Hubby and I went to Europe, specifically Portugal. We had a great time and I took daily notes so I could remember everything! Don't worry though I won't type a monster blog that will take you an hour to read. I will start with our travel day and the events that led up to that...
I finished work on Tuesday Sept 8th and came home and in true me style I couldn't sleep, don't worry I had been packed for days. Wednesday I tidyed up the house and got all the trash together and double checked everything then in the evening we checked in to our flight online and got our boarding passes, as far as I was concerned the time leading up to the point where I sat in my plane seat was taking far too long!!! F I N A L L Y Thursday arrived and I got the dogs all set up at my Mothers house and picked up lunch for Hubby and I. Soon it was time to get to BWI, which we did, by this time I was beside myself. We park in the long term parking lot and had to wait for the airport shuttle to come and get us, there was also a couple of other people waiting for the bus and the obligatory single woman with 2 small children, the little boy couldn't have been more then 3 and had his ears pierced, she also had far too much luggage and took forever getting on the bus and off the bus. So the bus finally leaves the long term lot and we are on our way... YEA!... but then we had to wait as the MARC train passed by, are we ever getting to the terminal? finally we get off at the U.S. Airways concourse and there is no one in line, the area is empty... ahhhh... we check our luggage and are told it will go straight through you'll pick it up in Lisbon. After we were luggage free we headed to the security checkpoint... what a line it extended to the International terminal, it moved quickly though and before you know I was removing my shoes and putting them and my carry on bag on the conveyor belt to be checked. once through security I put my shoes back on and wait for Hubby to get through. Then we head for our gate and have about an hour to wait to board. Of course we are waiting for the flight to get here from somewhere and its late. We decided to eat and we had McDonald's at the airport and then waited some more. finally we were able to get on, late, but the captain announced that its only a 25 minute flight to Philadelphia so we'd still be on time. I hope so we only have an hour to get to the next plane once we land in Philly, So we're on the plane and heading for the runway when the pilot says we've been asked to sit for 10 minutes because of the air traffic in Philly... WHAT... We don't have the time for this! Finally we get the Okay to fly and we down the runway in the air and off to Philadelphia. The rows of seats are 2 aisle 2 so Hubby and I are sitting together and I am on pins just waiting to get to Philadelphia and see how far we have to run to catch the other flight!
To be continued...
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