Stupid Luggage Hatch
I wanted to surprise my friend, Teresa, on her 30th birthday by paying a visit to her house - in Florida. I booked my ticket a few weeks ago and knew that since I was working the Oscars that I would not be able to leave Sunday night. So, I booked the earliest ticket out Monday morning which meant we had to leave for the airport at 4am. Since I am not a morning person and can barely function at that time, I stayed up all night puttering around with my new phone and syncing contacts from my address book and such.
My flight was at 6am, and after 25 minutes in the security line (I would have had to wait almost an hour and a half if I didn’t get to skip the line due to my premier status with the airline) I barely made it to the gate on time. When I changed flights in Denver, I had such a short layover that I almost had to run to catch my next flight in a different terminal. I plopped down in my seat right as the purser came on the PA system to inform us that something was wrong with the luggage hatch and it’d take an hour or so to fix.
They let us get off the plane and an hour and a half later, we reboarded the flight. As soon as I plopped down in my seat, the purser came on the PA again to let us know that now something was wrong with something else on the plane that needed to be fixed, so we’d be delayed even further.
Finally, after another hour, we were on our way. But instead of arriving at Tampa International Airport at 3pm, I landed at some point in the five o’clock hour. That meant, Teresa’s husband was unable to pick me up at the airport since they have 3 kids who need to be picked up from school and chauffeured to ballet classes and such. So we had to ruin Teresa’s surprise and have her pick me up instead when she finished giving her presentation in one of her post-grad classes for her continued studies in mental health. But her class wasn’t finished until 8:30 or so and since I hadn’t slept the night before, it was a long, long day.
But I’m here now and her children are just so precious. Beautiful. We spent the morning walking down by the marina and playing at the playground with the 2 youngest kids while Morgan (almost 10) is at school. We had lunch on the water and now it is time for a nap!
