I think I am just now beginning to recuperate from the flight back from New Hampshire, where we went to visit Rachel and Chris. We stayed for 6 days and it was wonderful! She was much more together and posted the photos and gave the listing of what all we did so you should just check the link to her blog to read about it and see the photos. She saved me all that time of posting photos!
I think I will add to what she said by saying that we also had an incredible time. It was enough time that we weren't rushed and had time to just hang out with them. The surprise went over very well and I'm so happy that everyone kept the secret about Greg coming out. I was the only one that nearly gave it away when she called a few weeks ago while I was searching online for a good price for tickets. It caught me off guard and when she asked what I was up to, I simply answered that I was looking for tickets for Greg. Then I caught myself and told a white lie about him wanting to come so we were giving him tickets for his birthday so he could come out in early August. She took the bait, hook line and sinker.
Saying goodbye does NOT get any easier. I wish it did and I wish I could just be happy that she is well and happy, but I'm just selfish enough and "mom" enough to want to be able to do what we did last week more often. It just isn't fair that we have to be so far apart.
The flight home was a nightmare..for real. Our flight out of Manchester was late, therefore we would be missing our connecting flight out of Chicago back to Tulsa. The only thing they could do was send us from Chicago to Dallas to Tulsa. CRAZY! Things just kept getting delayed and we actually sat on the plane in Dallas for almost 2 hours waiting to take off from the runway, with 22 planes ahead of us! There was a thunderstorm and they don't like to have their planes take off in all of that. Once we finally got in the air, it was such a rough ride that even the flight attendants were not allowed out of their seat belts. They finally put in a movie, but that still didn't take us away from the bumps and drops while in the air. We then had to drive from Tulsa...just ask Steve how he feels about THAT great idea now...which is about 2 hours away. We crawled in the bed here at 3am. ugh. Steve made it to work the next day, but I didn't.
So...we are back home, and just as Rachel used the analogy of a car battery, we will have to just keep finding ways to visit. This was much too long since Christmas. I hope we don't have to wait that long again!
More later on what else has been going on. Right now it's past my bedtime.
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