Back at Home!
Thanks for the good wishes - we "survived" O'Hare and are now back at home. Sadly, we never made it to our destination, but we were able to get easy seats back to our home airport. So, here we are, a little defeated but safe and sound. On the upside, we were able to host an impromptu holiday dinner for some friends last night, and had a wonderful time.
Anyway, the whole experience gave me a renewed appreciation for all the "families" we have - the ones we came from who called often to cheer us up at the airport, the new one we are forging in our first year of marriage, the friends who met us at home with re-gifted gifts and a bottle of booze and let us thank them with a delicious dinner the following night, and my "virtual" family whose posts were definitely entertaining and thought provoking and whose comments to my post were encouraging and funny.
Many thanks to you and my best to Quinn. I hope you made it home safe and sound too.
Next battle is to get a refund from United...and I hear that despite promises by their call center that's much easier said than done. Whee!
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GOOD FOR YOU AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.
December 28, 2008 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks, dick! Oh, and I saw your resolutions from earlier...just so happened I was watching the House marathon and reading up on the economy just this morning! Freaky, isn't it?
December 28, 2008 9:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I haven't seen the Quinn.
You don't think he's.... still there?!
December 28, 2008 10:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
His post said he'd be heading back on the 26th...although 300 more flights were canceled on the 26th...hopefully he's snug at home and just in recovery.
Are folks meeting up in the chatroom? I tried to say hi but didn't hear back.
December 28, 2008 10:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cheers BODem & Bwak! Bizarre travel tales, but made it to see the clan in NS - 4 days late, but nonetheless, happy. In nice piece of good news, business was poor at the Inn, so they upgraded a single room to a whole house! Which means could have a dozen kin over for a day of pizza, Caddyshack, pies, Tropic Thunder, more pies, Bill Hicks videos, Pies III and so on.
And as you say, BurnedOutDem, the expanding and overlapping circles make the whole thing survivable, and much more. Cooperative cabbies, friends dishing meals, nephews that now offer cars rather than beg rides, generous Innkeepers... even TPM maniacs posting from airports and chipping in with Good Lucks from God Knows Where...
Thanks for the thoughts, and the post, BODEm. Hope it all stays in the groove, for the rest of your Holiday!
- quinn
December 29, 2008 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
The Mighty Quinn survives another. Good for You.
Sounds like good times.
December 29, 2008 1:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
good times.
Everybody's in despair
Every girl and boy
But when Quinn the Eskimo gets here
Everybody'll jump for joy.
December 29, 2008 4:45 AM | Reply | Permalink