A Comedy of Errors

I'm currently in Florida with some of my friends from high school and college, and even though it is raining outside right now that is hard to beat. Getting here though could have been a whole lot smoother.

I was supposed to fly out yesterday at 12:30, have a layover in Atlanta and then get to Florida at 6. That morning my mom got a call (I'm still not sure why Delta had her number instead of mine) and was told that my flight was canceled. I got online to check and sure enough I was out a flight. They had already re-booked me but with an extra stop. Now I would be leaving Cincinnati at 1:3o stopping in Chicago, then flying to Atlanta, then arriving in Florida at 7:30. I called Delta to make sure that was my best option and, sure enough, it was. So I relaxed with Jed at home a little and enjoyed my extra hour to back. Just before we were going to leave for the airport I figured I should check in at home and print out my boarding pass, and thank goodness I did because my flight from Chicago to Atlanta had been significantly delayed and I would miss my connection. Another call to Delta and I was once again re-booked. Now I would be flying out at 4:30, stopping in Atlanta, and arriving at 9. Fine - at least I'd get there eventually right. Now just repeat the same story from before - right before we would leave I went to print out my boarding pass and saw that my flight to Atlanta was significantly delayed. Luckily my layover in Atlanta was long enough that this didn't matter so once again I waited a couple of hours and then finally headed off to the airport and ended up leaving Cincinnati around 6.

Thank goodness I kept checking my computer because I would have been one unhappy camper if I had ended up at the airport at 11:30 and had to wait around all day. As it was I still ended up with a pretty unproductive day because I kept thinking I just had an hour before I had to leave, but I'm here now and crazy re bookings or not I'm ready to have fun!

The 4th

So the 4th of July happened awhile ago, but just because I didn't blog about it right away doesn't mean we didn't have a great time. For the 4th this year Jed and I both took Friday off and at least part of Tuesday so that we could have a nice (very long) weekend in Georgia at my parents lake house. We hung out with family, skied and knee-boarded, rode on jet skis, swam, and jumped off of the dock. No fireworks though. It started raining the night of the 4th (thankfully not during the day when we were doing all of the fun things mentioned) so we couldn't see any fireworks. We attempted watching the Macy's 4th show on tv but fireworks just aren't the same when you're not there in person. Oh well ... fireworks or not it was an amazing 4th. And to prove how much fun we had, here are some pictures :)

Danielle and my cousin Lisa swimming in the lake

Jed hanging out on the dock (somewhat begrudgingly taking a picture for me)

On the jetski

Coming back on the boat

I attempted to make a fun flag cake - it turned out pretty well if I do say so myself even though the picture doesn't look great. It is surprisingly hard to take an appetizing picture of food.