If you’ve been reading my blog for a while or if you know me than you know that I don’t have the best of travel luck, to put it mildly.  Apparently though, if I travel with Ali, she seems able to counteract my bad travel mubo jumbo.  I wish she was with me now!

Both our families live on the East coast and one of my brothers is in the UK.  If we want to see everyone, we are the ones who travel.  When we made the reservations for our trip back in March, it seemed like a perfect time to travel.  The July kits would all be out in the mail, I could have everything set for August, etc. I could have a day on the ground after returning from CHA to leisurely get the kids packed and myself re-packed as we didn’t need to leave the house the next day until 10:30.  Perfect.

Then real life took over.  As I mentioned earlier, the stamps just arrived last Monday.  Ali and I got back to my house at 1:30 am on Monday night (so Tuesday morning).  I got 3 hrs of sleep and then got busy until 10 that night working with Trish and Melissa to get all the orders out that had been waiting on the second round of stamps.  Then I started working on getting us ready for the trip. 

After another night of 3 hrs, I checked and answered all of my emails and figured I could answer anything that came in throughout the day the following morning.  We got to the airport and the security lines were the worst I’d ever seen (the week before Ali and I had breezed through) so that we even though we had 2 hrs at the airport, we barely had time to get the kids fed.  We had a connection in Chicago.  Next time I book a flight with the kids can someone please remind me NOT to book through Chicago?!?!?  They didn’t announce our connecting flight on the plane.  The departures board didn’t have our connecting flight.  Upon finding a gate agent we discovered that was because our flight was cancelled!  After an hr in line we got booked on the earliest flight out we could get.  5:40 pm the next night.  Nice.

The fortunate side of being in Chicago was that my cousin lives there.  She came and got us and our kids had a blast playing with her little ones.  Now if only we had had extra clothese with us, etc… 

In the morning I sat down to get busy on my email but my cousin couldn’t find her password to her wi-fi system so I couldn’t sync up my computer.  And with my kids there  I couldn’t exactly take off and find a coffee show where I could work.  Ok I thought, at least I could sit down the follwing morning at my inlaws and I’d be able to sync up there.

Our 5:40 flight finally boarded at 7:50.  We sat on the runway for an hour and finally got in around midnight.  We got to my inlaws at 2am and we were so happy to crash and get out of our clothes!  I think I”m going to burn the skirt and the shirt I wore for those 2 days!

So, I get my computer out this morning, all set to get to work, and no dice.  They don’t know the password to their wi-fi either!!!!!  And, they are out in the boondocks so there was no possibility of heading to a coffeeshop.

But, the good news is that I’m on a bus heading to Boston’s Logan airport (again, at the time it had seemed like a good idea to get my 2 college roommates to meet up with me in Boston) and it has wi-fi that’s actually accessible!!!!  As it’s just an hr I thought I would sync up and write a post to make sure everyone was aware that I’m not ignoring them.  And now I’m going to get off the computer before I get car sick!!!

Thanks in advance for your patience and please know that I am so sorry for the delay.  I should be able to work through my very full inbox by tomorrow at some point. 

If you have any travel plans this summer I hope for your sake you aren’t booked on any flights we are!  If you are, you might want to eat the change fee and get on another flight!