Late Night

 

Southwest called at noon to tell me my 8PM flight was delayed until 11PM.. They already knew at NOON. This flight rarely leaves on time, but is usually only around an hour delayed. By the time I left Lake Havasu City at 4, it was scheduled to leave at 11:35.

 

I decided to wait and eat at the airport to use up some time, but when I arrived at the concourse around 7:30, everything was closed. I've never seen the Las Vegas airport so dead. I guess July 3 is  not a big travel day. I walked back to a different concourse and finally found a restaurant and used up an hour there. Then went back to my gate and settled down to wait. I read and dozed and hoped they would leave earlier, but no such luck. When we started boarding a little before 11PM they announced we could spread out, there were only 20 people going to Kansas City. I don't think I have ever been on a flight with only 20 people that wasn't downsized to a little plane.

 

When we arrived in Kansas City, as I walked through the airport to baggage claim, I saw all these people standing around at the ticket counter, which was not open at the time. I had noticed an AirTran plane at the gate and figured something had happened to cause these people to be stuck at the airport. Only when I noticed the boards had two flights listed that were to leave at 5:30AM did I realize that these people were here waiting for the ticket counter to open so they could leave. They thought it was MORNING! I thought it was still the middle of the night.

 

Made it home, crawled into bed and turned off my light to catch some sleep at 4:45 AM.

 

Happy Fourth of July!

 

 

 

 

Dog Sitting

I am in Yuma, AZ today. It was 97 degrees when I left the hotel at 8:30 this morning.

 

The Administrator here recently purchased a condo on some island off the coast of Mexico and today needed to get to San Luis, Mexico (just across the boarder from Yuma) to pay the taxes. He also had to bring all three of their dogs to work because his wife was gone and he couldn't leave them at home all day. So here they are.

 

He was hesitant to go because I (the consultant) was here and because of the dogs. I told him to go and I would take care of the dogs. Can you see how thrilled they are to be with me? They have sat and stared at the door since he left, with occasional little whines thrown in just in case I might start to believe they liked me.