Sunday evening,  we made it home today.   But we hated to leave,  it was cool when we got to Florida but got warmer each day.   And Saturday and Saturday night were great,  and today should have been even nicer!   We all got some sun burn to take with us.  We had a great time having  Bev and Wally with us.  Ate, drank, laughed.   Showed them some of our favorite restaurants, walked the beach and did a little sight seeing.   Life is good.

It did not start out smoothly!  We had booked our flight out of Milwaukee, so left work around noon and drove down to catch our plane.  Drive was easy and were in the airport plenty early.   Got on the plane,  then they found a maintenance problem that was going to take 10 minutes, then an hour.   Then they brought us a new plane.   Wally had thought I was brave to leave a short time to change planes in Atlanta,  guess what?  Didn’t make it.

We had planned to meet in West Palm Beach around 10:30 pm.  I had the car rented and was going to take Bev and Wally to the condo.  Now we were in Milwaukee not going to get into West Palm, no other flights later into West Palm.  There was a flight to Fort Lauderdale  but the ticket agent doubted we would make it and should plan on an overnight in Atlanta and catch a morning flight to West Palm.  Well we told her to put us on the Fort Lauderdale and take our chances.   But Bev and Wally were leaving Chicago and would be in West Palm with no guidance!  Well MJ was off of school last week and had been at the condo.  I gave her a call and she was in Orlando but planning to head back to Fort Lauderdale.   So she agreed to take off right away and head to West Palm, and would take Bev and Wally to the condo!   So they were taken care of.

I tried calling Avis to transfer my car to Fort Lauderdale,  but when I said I wanted to return it to West Palm they said hey didn’t have cars they could book me with,  take my chances when we land!      Well we got out of Milwaukee,  landed in Atlanta when the other plane to Fort Lauderdale should have been taking off,  but a gate agent was waiting and directed some of us to the Fort Lauderdale planes gate and some people to a Tampa flight!  We ran up the conourse,  luckily the plane was close.  They had waited and boarded some of us from the Milwaukee flight and were also trying to book soem people from a late Rochester flight.   So we were on the plane!

We landed in Fort Lauderdale around 12:30 and then I was going to start hitting the rental car desks.  But when we came out of security there was Bev and Wally!  Wal had got on the computer and figured out what plane we would be on, and with some directions from Mary drove our car down to get us.   So we stayed up a few more hours talking and relaxing,  and so started our vacation!   Things went smoothly after that though!

The first couple of nights were cool,  but last night we had a late supper at an outside table at a local restaurant.   And sat out a little longer when we got back to the condo.   And today’s flights, even though I had booked even less time between flights,  were smooth and we were early arriving on both flights.   Now back to real life!

We did not plan this well when we were trying to find a common weekend for us, in that we missed Mom’s birthday yesterday, her 89th.   But we told her last weekend and will go down again this coming Saturday.   This Friday we help out at the parish fish fry.  In between a lot of work and sounds like a chance of snow.  We will just have to remember paradise!