Back in Black

Well, I'm finally catching up from my vacation in Boston. Yesterday I discovered that I didn't have any clean black t-shirts when I got home from work, so it was time to do the laundry from the trip. It's great to be back with Perro - I can tell he missed me. Whippy ate so much of the fresh greens I gave her yesterday that her tummy was distended.

My flight on Sunday took about 15 hours. Joey and I had food poisoning from some suspicious brown pasta we ate at dinner Saturday night, so we didn't eat too many of the little bags of pretzels. We left the hotel at 6:45 AM, but our flight took off late from Boston, and then had to fly to Philadelphia to pick up more people. We were delayed leaving Philly, so our connecting flight to Minneapolis had already left Atlanta by the time we got there. AirTran gave us some $7 vouchers for dinner, and then rebooked us on a flight leaving at 10:55 PM. So Grandma, Joey and I were stuck in the airport bar Atlanta for several hours, watching the Evil Knieval special on TNT. The night dragged on and on . . . and the 10:55 PM flight was late. The AirTran rep said that he needed to "dig up a flight crew" before we could leave. Scary! It sounded like something out of Forensic Detectives. Finally we got back to Minneapolis about 1:30 AM and MSP was as silent as a tomb.

It feels great to be home - I've been snuggling up with my giant stuffed sea turtle from the New England Aquarium. Last night Joey and I watched "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" with John Candy. A wonderful way to cap off the adventure with a few laughs!