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We're back

We landed back home on Monday night at 11:30PM. We had a great time in Texas with many adventures and exiting happenings to report. I do have pictures and I’ll be uploading them either later today or tomorrow. I haven’t checked yet but you may find some interesting pictures and stories on www.garatx23.blogspot.com.

We arrived in Texas on Thursday night after a long, loud, day of flying. Somehow Eric and I got the short end of the stick and ended up sitting next to the airplane engine on both legs of the flight. Unable to hear the Ipod, the movie playing on the laptop, each other, or our own internal thoughts – we were both quite “over it” by landing time. We did get smart and ask for a seating change for the trip back.

Eric passed out pretty much as soon as we got to Liz’s apartment. Liz and I stayed up and did the whole best friend – drink til you drop and talk about old times thing. Probably best that Eric was asleep.

On day 2 we set out to find a hotel. That in itself was an adventure. Last week was Spring break for San Antonio so all the attractions: The Alamo, Fiesta Texas, Sea World, etc. brought in more tourists that I expected, therefore, nearly every hotel was booked. No room at the Inn for me, Eric or baby Jesus had he been with us. After much searching we landed at a hotel that was .0002% short of a roach motel.

Hotel:

Room #1 – After checking-in we walked in to our room and discovered two ladies, one of which had gold teeth and the "wet-look", were currently occupying the room. Not sure if the hotel overbooked or if the ladies weren’t ready to check out when instructed. Something reaked of hooker.
Room #2 – smelled like feet & only one, of the two, beds were made. Who was sleeping in the unmade bed? No one knows. Not even the nice cleaning lady who offered to make the bed back up and "spray" to remove the smell. Eric requested another room.
Room #3 – We’ll take it. The coffee pot had been used and not cleaned for probably weeks but the room smelled decent. We had free high-speed internet and HBO (Sopranos on Sunday night)

The rest of the week was filled with lots of eating, some drinking, site seeing, shopping, go-carting, and pampering. We left on Sunday afternoon and, unlike the flight TO Texas, we got to watch 2 DVDs on our laptop on the way home. Once we landed it was time to head back to the house but not before some unexpected last minute happenings.

I did not pack for DC weather when I left. Actually, I did, but it was warmer here when we left then it was when we came home. I only had open-toed high heels, a few t-shirts, and a spring jacket with me. When we landed in Baltimore it was just under 30 degrees. As a result I went rummaging through Eric’s suitcase to find some warmer clothes: Tennis shoes, thermal, and long socks. I snagged a fleece coat out of my suitcase and off we went. Well...off went my underwear, hair product, shoes, hair dryer, and other bits and pieces of the inside of my suit case. Oops!! We forgot to zip it up. Yea, so I’m scrambling to pick up my dirty thongs from the floors of the crowded airport...as my hair product goes a rollin’. Ugh! On the Shuttle. Off the shuttle. Walk tot he car. Bad sign. Automatic locks are working.....I left my lights on and the battery was DEAD. Good thing I put on warmer clothes for the walk to the call box for assistance. We got home about 1am.
Even with the post-trip fuck-ups I felt all rejuvenated when I came home. Now, it’s back to stressful square one here at work but at least I have the pictures to remember it!

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 10:52 AM