I know it's belated, but Merry Christmas to everyone! :)
Art and I had a fabu Christmas holiday in Texas with his family and the extended family. We saw some amazing stuff including Ice! at the Gaylord Texan resort. Loved it! We actually spent Christmas Day in Oklahoma City at my sister-in-law Jessica's parents houses. Her family was amazing....good food and great company! :) Pics to come!
And now we're back home in Tallahassee....I'm officially moved in! However, I'm home alone tonight, as Art had to leave suddenly to Midland, TX for work. I'm hoping he'll finish in time and make it back to Florida for New Years Eve. I want to start 2007 with my honey by my side, the start of a new beginning for us finally living together again after 3 years.
If he doesn't make it, we're planning to have a private party at our apartment on New Years Day for the two of us, but I'm still holding out hope that he'll be there for NYE! :)
So, until then, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays....and get your drink on, y'all! ;) Champagne galore!!!
Friday, December 29, 2006
Friday, December 22, 2006
Travelling at Christmas sucks...
As I'm sure everyone in the Western world knows, Denver airport was shut down for the last two days. I'm not even going to or near Denver, yet somehow it ended up making yesterday the looooongest day ever!
I left Halifax yesterday morning at 8:40am, bound for Dallas, to spend Christmas with my husband and his family at his brother's house. I had tickets to fly through Boston and Chicago to DFW. I got to Boston without hassle and then found out that my Boston-Chicago-Dallas flight (all the same plane) got cancelled because the plane was in Boston, but broken. So off I go to the United counter! I stood in line for 3 hours to finally get on two standby flights for later that day, one to Washington, DC and the other to Dallas.
I got on my first standby flight but not the second. So right now I'm in DC. Luckily, the agent in Boston confirmed me seats for today's evening flight to Dallas. Once I misssed the flight last night, I headed to the Customer Service desk in the terminal....huge lineup again. After an hour, I gave up and headed out to the main ticketing agents, thinking the lineup would be less out there.
I was wrong.
3.5 hours later, I finally get to an agent who can get me the hotel voucher I was promised in Boston. She books me to the Hyatt near the airport (which is pretty nice...I have pics to share later!) and gets me breakfast, lunch and dinner vouchers for today too! And....she upgraded my flight to first class for tonight!
So, even though I spent 7.5 hours in lineups yesterday, at least I'll be in Dallas tonight (I hope!) and I got some pretty nice perks. Some others weren't so lucky. Many of my new "airport friends" won't be going anywhere for Christmas but the airport.
For now, I'll sign off....but I hope to post again later when I'm safe and sound in Dallas with my husband (who's also flying into Dallas today from Tallahassee, via Charlotte, where's there's tons of rainstorms in the area!)
Remind me not to travel over the holidays next year....
I left Halifax yesterday morning at 8:40am, bound for Dallas, to spend Christmas with my husband and his family at his brother's house. I had tickets to fly through Boston and Chicago to DFW. I got to Boston without hassle and then found out that my Boston-Chicago-Dallas flight (all the same plane) got cancelled because the plane was in Boston, but broken. So off I go to the United counter! I stood in line for 3 hours to finally get on two standby flights for later that day, one to Washington, DC and the other to Dallas.
I got on my first standby flight but not the second. So right now I'm in DC. Luckily, the agent in Boston confirmed me seats for today's evening flight to Dallas. Once I misssed the flight last night, I headed to the Customer Service desk in the terminal....huge lineup again. After an hour, I gave up and headed out to the main ticketing agents, thinking the lineup would be less out there.
I was wrong.
3.5 hours later, I finally get to an agent who can get me the hotel voucher I was promised in Boston. She books me to the Hyatt near the airport (which is pretty nice...I have pics to share later!) and gets me breakfast, lunch and dinner vouchers for today too! And....she upgraded my flight to first class for tonight!
So, even though I spent 7.5 hours in lineups yesterday, at least I'll be in Dallas tonight (I hope!) and I got some pretty nice perks. Some others weren't so lucky. Many of my new "airport friends" won't be going anywhere for Christmas but the airport.
For now, I'll sign off....but I hope to post again later when I'm safe and sound in Dallas with my husband (who's also flying into Dallas today from Tallahassee, via Charlotte, where's there's tons of rainstorms in the area!)
Remind me not to travel over the holidays next year....
Monday, December 18, 2006
I am the worst blogger ever...
Okay, okay. I know I said I'd get on with this whole blogging thing, but I just forgot about it. Plus I've been really busy! ;)
Since my last update (in June...I *really* suck at updating!), I've gone on a few more trips. I went:
~ to New Brunswick in June
~ to Florida for three weeks in August
~ to New York City for Labour Day weekend in September
~ to Hawaii for a week in October for my 5th wedding anniversary
~ to Florida again in November for Thanksgiving weekend
Yeah, the frequent flier miles are racking up! ;) And I have more news.....I'm officially moving home!!!! That's right, bitches, I'm moving back to Florida! Art and I have finally decided that this living in two countries thing is done, so as of THIS Thursday, I'll be residing in the USA once again!!
Art and I are heading to Dallas, TX to spend Christmas with his brother Kris and his wife Jess, his father and his stepmother....and all of Jess's family. We'll be making a day trip up to Oklahoma City for Christmas day to celebrate with Jess's family! Then Art and I will head home to Florida together.
I'm making a trip home to Halifax again in January (yep, more frequent flier miles...wooo hooo!) to renew my spousal visa (long story short is that Art's company decided to renew his work visa by mail but since I was in Canada, I didn't qualify for the mail renewal, so I still need to cross the border). But the bonus of having to come back means I have another trip to get my shit back to Florida....AND I'll get to go to my sorority ball on January 6th! Wheee! I'll get to dress up all pretty and go ball gown shopping!
So that's the highlights from me. I celebrated my 28th birthday yesterday in style (well, celebrated with the girls on Saturday night by hitting downtown Halifax!) with lobster and a few bottles of champagne. I'm getting old! Eeeek!
And now I must head back to my packing...I have waaaaay too much stuff to get home! Happy Holidays y'all....I promise to update more often (since I'll have more free time in Florida!)
Since my last update (in June...I *really* suck at updating!), I've gone on a few more trips. I went:
~ to New Brunswick in June
~ to Florida for three weeks in August
~ to New York City for Labour Day weekend in September
~ to Hawaii for a week in October for my 5th wedding anniversary
~ to Florida again in November for Thanksgiving weekend
Yeah, the frequent flier miles are racking up! ;) And I have more news.....I'm officially moving home!!!! That's right, bitches, I'm moving back to Florida! Art and I have finally decided that this living in two countries thing is done, so as of THIS Thursday, I'll be residing in the USA once again!!
Art and I are heading to Dallas, TX to spend Christmas with his brother Kris and his wife Jess, his father and his stepmother....and all of Jess's family. We'll be making a day trip up to Oklahoma City for Christmas day to celebrate with Jess's family! Then Art and I will head home to Florida together.
I'm making a trip home to Halifax again in January (yep, more frequent flier miles...wooo hooo!) to renew my spousal visa (long story short is that Art's company decided to renew his work visa by mail but since I was in Canada, I didn't qualify for the mail renewal, so I still need to cross the border). But the bonus of having to come back means I have another trip to get my shit back to Florida....AND I'll get to go to my sorority ball on January 6th! Wheee! I'll get to dress up all pretty and go ball gown shopping!
So that's the highlights from me. I celebrated my 28th birthday yesterday in style (well, celebrated with the girls on Saturday night by hitting downtown Halifax!) with lobster and a few bottles of champagne. I'm getting old! Eeeek!
And now I must head back to my packing...I have waaaaay too much stuff to get home! Happy Holidays y'all....I promise to update more often (since I'll have more free time in Florida!)
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