This week I was lucky enough to be picked to do a site visit in Anchorage, Alaska. Yeah, you read that right. Pics to follow, when I’m actually home and can download them.
So I left Tuesday, and was supposed to be home last night. Well, right now, I’m sitting my pretty self down in the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport, and have been here ALL NIGHT LONG.
We took off at 10:00 am Anchorage time yesterday, (2 pm eastern). It was supposed to be a five and a half hour flight from Anchorage to Minneapolis. But then…..
Our plane ran out of gas. We didn’t have enough gas to make it to Minneapolis, so we had to detour to Deluth. There were serious thunderstorms in Minneapolis, so we ended up sitting on the runway for about three hours, but not before we ALMOST HIT A DEER WHEN LANDING THE PLANE. We were almost touching down, when landing in Deluth, and the pilots started banking up sharply. He comes over the PA telling us “Well, I don’t know about you all, but I don’t like venison this time of year”. So we circle for a minute, and then land.
So, then we finally make it into Minneapolis. Turns out the storms were so bad, the tower got hit by lightening twice. We ended up coming in about four hours late, so many people had either had their connections cancelled, their connections had taken off, or they were still delayed. I got rebooked on a Philly flight at seven am the next day (today). So, I camped myself out at the terminal, because the only open hotel at the last minute was about a forty five minute drive, and I would only have gotten about three hours sleep. I didn’t actually sleep too badly. My flight today leaves in about an hour and a half, so with some luck, I’ll be home before too long.
And, my favorite rolley-bag carry-on broke today….one of the wheels came off
I’m sad. It lasted me through three years of traveling, and it was a ten dollar purchase at Value City.
The good news, in all of this random aviation adventure goodness, is we just started our compressed workweek rotation at work (we work an extra hour a day Monday through Thursday, and then Friday we have a half day; this happens every other week). So, when I do make it home today, I’m off for the weekend. Yippee!