My apologies!
Because of my travels, work related and otherwise, I have not given my blog,
myspace, e-mail, phone messages the time they deserve. It has taken me several weeks at times to return phone calls and e-mail which I normally responded to within a day. The good news...my life should be returning to normal....so my response time will be much better. I know you guys miss hearing from me! :)
It's almost the weekend!!
D
Labels: travel
Jaymeson
I found some cheap tickets and made a quick dash to visit
Shan and
Jaymeson last weekend. We had been considering a trip to New York in May.
Jaymeson overheard
Shan talking about the trip and was upset. After processing the information, he looked at his mom and said "Mom, you're going to see my Uncle Daniel? I never get to see my Uncle Daniel."
I had to get out there and see him. We had a blast. We went to Incredible Pizza (aka Chuck E Cheese III - Imagine Chuck E Cheese m
ultiplied by 10 with good food). The rest of the trip was relatively uneventful...a trip to the doctor's office for J's ear infection, a hair cut (did I mention his hair is now cut like Uncle Daniel's?) but it was good.
As I was leaving, J looked at me and told me that he wished I could stay there with him forever. Talk about a warm fuzzy feeling mixed with a knife through the heart. Of course...I felt the same way!!
Labels: Jaymeson, travel
So much to tell...so little time!!
I know it has been a long time...and for that I apologize!! A lot has happened in the past few weeks and I promise to catch you up in the next couple of days.
The most exciting thing that has happened was a promotion at work! I have been promoted to a Vice President and I am very excited! I will no longer be in Sales which I had grown to love but in management which I have always wanted to do. I think my skill sets are better used in this capacity. There will be much less travel with this position which I see both as a good thing and a bad thing. I really enjoy travelling but I was really getting tired...and I am getting old (haha) so I probably need to slow down anyway.
Well, I'm off to bed...I will catch this thing up through the weekend. Hope everyone is having a great week!
D
Labels: Job, Tired, travel
Delta
US Airways withdrew their bid for Delta today. The good news keeps on coming!! I've been a loyal Delta customer for years. Before America West acquired US Air, US Air was in more trouble than Delta is now...and their service suffered horribly. Delta has been able to keep their heads up during this troubling time in their history...and soon they will be back on their feet.
Labels: airlines, travel
What a week!!!
Wow. This week was quite the adventure.
After our visit to Sea World last Saturday, we headed back to Jax to pick up my bag. After two days, I was finally able to take a shower and change into clean clothes. We hung out the rest of the weekend enjoying each other's company - it was nice and relaxing.
In contrast to relaxing, I attended a conference on Tuesday through Thursday. It was good and should bring some business into our company. We went out for dinner and drinks on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the dinner and drinks didn't settle well and Wednesday was tough. My counterparts decided I had probably caught a bug - at any rate Wednesday was not fun!
I spent Friday working in the hotel until Shan and Cody made it to Ft. Worth. From there, we went to eat at The Melting Pot before heading to Pete's Dueling Piano Bar for the evening. Pete's as always was awesome - there is nothing better than a Dueling Piano Bar.
Today, we spent the day shopping before heading to Stacey and Steve's wedding. The wedding was gorgeous. Good friends, good food...what more can anyone ask for!
Labels: Friends, travel
Resolutions and Such
So I am falling behind on most of my resolutions though I am ready to jump back on the horse. I needed an interesting story to keep your attention and I think I now have it.
On Friday afternoon, I left for Jacksonville, FL. I expected to be there Friday evening. That did not happen.
We boarded the plane in Tucson on Friday about 3:30. The flight was to leave at 3:45. Everything seemed to be going well. We taxied from the gate almost to the runway when the plane stopped and the engines shut down. The captain came on and told us because of bad weather in Dallas the flight after ours had been cancelled and we were on a ground hold. An hour and a half later we were finall allowed to take off. When we arrived at DFW, we had to sit on the tarmac for another hour and a hald beause there were no gates. The captain even came on again and told us to write American Airlines and tell them this was not acceptable.
I'm sure you are thinking man that sucks! The story does not end there. While sitiing in the airplane, I called AA to rebook my flight for the next morning to Orlando instead of Jacksonville because my niece and I had planned to visit Sea World with the family. When we finally were able to get off the plane over five hours from when we had boarded, I quickly ran to grab a bite to eat and let some of the lines of distressed passengers die down before I made my evening plans. It was about 10:30pm at this point.
AA gave me a reduced rate of $60.00 to stay at the Amerisuites DFW South and called their van to take me to the hotel. I was told the van would arrive in 30 min. 45 minutes later the van sped past without stopping (as I waived my hands) and did not come back. I called the hotel and was told the vans were very busy and I should just take a cab. Only one thing the cabs were all gone. I quickly realized that by the time I called a cab and drove to the hotel I would only be able to grab a couple hours sleep before having to be back at the airport. I found a dark corner and slept on the tile floor. About 3am an airport employee felt bad for me and found a couple of blankets for me but needless to say I did not get much sleep. I had no problems sleeping on the plane to Orlando....even with all of the excited kids heading to Disney.
One last thing, of course my bags did not go to Orlando (like the AA rep assured me they would on the phone). They went to Jax so I wasn't able to shave for the second day in a row...much less take a shower. I'm sure I was rank when I finally got a shower this morning.
The joys of travel...
Labels: airlines, travel, unbelievable
