Home after ...
A 30-minute Dominican taxi ride through the mountains at 7:30 a.m. that included picking up a drunk French guy with a fresh gash in his head.
A 4-hour bus ride through the country, in which someone threw something at one of the bus windows while we were moving, shattering the window.
A 30-minute taxi ride from Santo Domingo to the airport in a station wagon, which some people in the country call a limousine.
A 3-hour plane ride to Atlanta sitting next to the crabbiest woman I ever met.
About the crying kids ... "Someone should sedate them."
"They are forming a conspiracy."
About the stewardess with the stewardess in earshot ... "What a ditz!"
About the movie Invincible ... "They obviously don't call holding."
About the alarm in the airport ... "What the HELL is that?"
A 1-hour walk through the airport in Atlanta to find out our plane was cancelled, get our hotel voucher and receive our "overnight kit" complete with an XL white, see-through T-shirt and some horrible tasting toothpaste.
A 30-minute wait for the airport shuttle to take us to the hotel.
A 2-minute looney jumping on the beds "we're in America" session.
A 1.5-hour flight to Cincinnati.
A 3.5-hour layover and lunch in Cincinnati.
A 1-hour flight to St. Louis in a baby plane.
A 1-hour wait for our luggage in the mess called "baggage claim" at Lambert.
A 30-minute ride to St. Charles to get my car from Meg's, wearing sandals, no jacket and a hat made out of palm leaves. *Not too appropriate for the weather
A 30-minute drive from St. Charles to home.
It was actually a fun and adventurous 48 hours of travel, but, boy, it's good to be home. :-)
9 comments:
Welcome back, chica! Hey, Linds is back in the country, too, and we should all get together sometime. Any three-day weekends in your future?
welcome back! we just missed each other. i ducked out early saturday to avoid the worst of the freezing rain. it seems columbia got it much worse, though.
wow - a crazy travel schedule! My favorite part though is the palm leaf hat. I wish I would have had one of those yesterday when I was out working in the weather. That would have been pimp.
I am glad you are safe home. I felt something is missing in my life since I haven't seen new post in ten days, have a good rest.
where are the photos of the XL white, see-through T-shirt?
The lady was probably bitter. Her husband probably left her for a stewardess about a year ago (she now hates all of them), and she dove into BonBons, almost immediately packing on 50 pounds. She went down to the DR looking for a quickie with a cabana boy, but had no success. Because her ex-husband wouldn't knock her up but his new wife is now pregnant, she hates kids.
Always take earplugs on planes. Especially the long flights.
Welcome to America. Tell Fisch to use his imagination. Some things are better that way. It seems like this Mike guy has a great imagination. Maybe he's a writer, too?
No, I'm in the visual communication business. But my parents are great writers.
And yes, I do have a good imagination.
I was on a plane once were after a electrical storm delay, while people were complaining, a stewardess walked by and said, "I wouldn't complian. At least we're safe. I lost my husband I night just like this 10 years ago."....Who says that!!!?!??!
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