Dorothy Had It Right
"There's no place like home..."
Trips are fun - I love them, but nothing beats coming home. :)
Friday: Flew from Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth. Had 40 minutes to catch a connecting flight from there to Witchita, Kansas. Good thing it was the same terminal, just about 18 gates away, so it wasn't too bad of a connection. After we arrived, we ate dinner at Chili's before driving an hour to Harper. Food was good, service was not. (Hey, that could be one of those 6-word stories right there). Manager was embarrassed and not happy with our waiter so we ended up getting our food for half-price - not a bad way to start a trip (probably not a good way to start it either). The trip to Harper was uneventful - just converesed and got caught up with Joyce (she drove to pick us up in Witchita).
Saturday: Davina and I took Joyce's car (which we borrowed for the duration of our trip) and drove an hour south-east of Harper to pick up the food for her birthday bash that evening. She had rented the senior center in Harper and about 30 people (family) attended and we had a lot of fun. Davina, me, Derrick (Davina's brother), Amity (Derrick's girlfriend), Laura (Joyce's friend from Michigan) and Jessie (Laura's daughter) decorated the place and had it ready to go for the 6:30 party. I think we finished right at 6:29 - just before the first guest walked through the door. We ate and visited until about 9 that night.
Sunday: Church - Harper style. It was an enjoyable service. Harper is a farming community out in the middle of nowhere, so it's a very simple life and things move slow. So does the worship time and it was a nice change - something a little different. It was good to experience other styles. Basically Sunday's consist of morning service, eating and visiting and then evening service.
Monday: Drove about an hour or a little more to a small community called Yoder, Kansas. It's an Amish community and we ate lunch at a place that is run by them. Pretty good food.
Tuesday: Drove back to Witchita to catch out flight back to Phoenix. Flew into Dallas/Fort Worth to catch a connecting flight...that's when trouble began - lol. The flight we were supposed to be on from Dallas to Phoenix was having mechanical issues, so they attempted to fix them. When that failed, they started looking for another plane to get us on. They eventually found one, but it had just come in from Paris earlier that day so it was in the hanger. Not only that, but it still needed to be cleaned and it had to undergo an International Sercurity check before we could board - that took about an hour. Because we were switching flights, and because it took them so long to find another plane - they combined our flight with another flight traveling to Phoenix. This meant that we had to switch gates and everyone had to have their boarding passes reissued - another long line - lol. By the time we boarded the plane for take-off, we ended up being in Dallas for about 4.5 hours. It wasn't bad, just really tiring - I can think of a lot of other things I would rather do than spend time in an airport - good thing we had brought stuff to read. :)
Both of us were pretty tired last night - got some good sleep though - did I mention "there's no place like home."
Shawn
Trips are fun - I love them, but nothing beats coming home. :)
Friday: Flew from Phoenix to Dallas/Fort Worth. Had 40 minutes to catch a connecting flight from there to Witchita, Kansas. Good thing it was the same terminal, just about 18 gates away, so it wasn't too bad of a connection. After we arrived, we ate dinner at Chili's before driving an hour to Harper. Food was good, service was not. (Hey, that could be one of those 6-word stories right there). Manager was embarrassed and not happy with our waiter so we ended up getting our food for half-price - not a bad way to start a trip (probably not a good way to start it either). The trip to Harper was uneventful - just converesed and got caught up with Joyce (she drove to pick us up in Witchita).
Saturday: Davina and I took Joyce's car (which we borrowed for the duration of our trip) and drove an hour south-east of Harper to pick up the food for her birthday bash that evening. She had rented the senior center in Harper and about 30 people (family) attended and we had a lot of fun. Davina, me, Derrick (Davina's brother), Amity (Derrick's girlfriend), Laura (Joyce's friend from Michigan) and Jessie (Laura's daughter) decorated the place and had it ready to go for the 6:30 party. I think we finished right at 6:29 - just before the first guest walked through the door. We ate and visited until about 9 that night.
Sunday: Church - Harper style. It was an enjoyable service. Harper is a farming community out in the middle of nowhere, so it's a very simple life and things move slow. So does the worship time and it was a nice change - something a little different. It was good to experience other styles. Basically Sunday's consist of morning service, eating and visiting and then evening service.
Monday: Drove about an hour or a little more to a small community called Yoder, Kansas. It's an Amish community and we ate lunch at a place that is run by them. Pretty good food.
Tuesday: Drove back to Witchita to catch out flight back to Phoenix. Flew into Dallas/Fort Worth to catch a connecting flight...that's when trouble began - lol. The flight we were supposed to be on from Dallas to Phoenix was having mechanical issues, so they attempted to fix them. When that failed, they started looking for another plane to get us on. They eventually found one, but it had just come in from Paris earlier that day so it was in the hanger. Not only that, but it still needed to be cleaned and it had to undergo an International Sercurity check before we could board - that took about an hour. Because we were switching flights, and because it took them so long to find another plane - they combined our flight with another flight traveling to Phoenix. This meant that we had to switch gates and everyone had to have their boarding passes reissued - another long line - lol. By the time we boarded the plane for take-off, we ended up being in Dallas for about 4.5 hours. It wasn't bad, just really tiring - I can think of a lot of other things I would rather do than spend time in an airport - good thing we had brought stuff to read. :)
Both of us were pretty tired last night - got some good sleep though - did I mention "there's no place like home."
Shawn
posted by Shawn White | 10/18/2006 10:26:00 AM
1 Comments:
I've done the "stuck in the airport" thing with two kids and pregnant. Airports suck!
Glad you're back safe and sound, looking forward to LOST tonight...
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