What a weekend!
Laura and I have had quite the adventure with travel this weekend. We ventured up to Duluth for a weekend chock full of wedding planning and whatnot. Earlier this winter we found out that there are direct flights from Chicago through United Airlines late at night, awesome! Wednesday night we packed our gear and headed out from from work Thursday to catch our 9:15 flight. We made it up to Duluth without a hitch and stayed in the Canal Park Lodge compliments of Laura's generous parents.
Friday was stellar, I got up early and had a chance to strap on some rental skis, which didn't suck surprisingly, and headed up to Spirit with my old pal Tasha, a comp ticket from her made the morning even better. Afterwords, I met up with Laura's family and began our reception food tasting at Blackwoods. All of it was SO good it was hard to narrow our choices down to just a few dishes. That evening back in Washburn we hung out and watched the Opening Ceremony for the 2010 Olympics. I loved watching the projections on everything!
We went to bed and at about 2am I got up with a horrible stomach ache and ran downstairs and unloaded from both ends. Ugh, nothing like being sick away from home. My sickness lasted on and off until about 10 am where I had absolutely nothing left in my digestive tract. Thank goodness by the evening I was able to move around enough to get upstairs eat some chicken soup and watch some more of the Olympics.
Sunday I felt like a new (emptier) man and we headed to Duluth in the snow to catch our convenient 3pm flight to Chicago where we were excited to get home early and veg out for the night. But our plane had a different plan in mind. Due to mechanical errors we were being delayed. An hour later we find out that for some reason the Duluth Airport could not support our plane and they had to fly a mechanic up from Minneapolis another 2 hour wait. It wasn't until 9:45 and a lot of Pokemon/facebook/thankdearlordforfreeinternetsurfing that our flight got canceled. After another debacle at counter we eneded up with a free room for the night with a complimentary shuttle back to the airport, no need for a cab, right?
After some much needed Luce pizza at midnight we set our alarms for 4:20 am to catch our 4:45 am Shuttle to the airport for our flight set to leave at 5:25 am, cutting it close? Perhaps. But in the tiny Duluth airport and their two gates, shits a breeze. But no, Laura and I learned the value of the E-Ticket and the online boarding pass/check in. Instead of walking right through security and sitting in our seats just before the door shut, we waited forFUCKINGever it seemed like for some old lady and some dumbasses to check their luggage 10 seconds before their flight to work their shit out. We get our passes hop through security like expected and the attendant says, sorry you're late, it seemed like she had some pleasure in the back of her voice too.
After another half hour battle at the check in counter Laura and I decide instead of wasting another day at the Duluth airport we shall rent a car and drive to Minneapolis for some better luck with getting a flight to Chicago. Pt.2 begins at 7:30 when the rental places open up. Which blows because the car rental will most likely end up on our dime.
We found a car! We got hooked up with a Prius to drive south to Minneapolis. Once we got there we had a really smooth check-in and flight. To ice the cake from our weekend when we arrived in Chicago to have a $50 parking ticket stuck on our window. Its great to be back finally.
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