It didn't help our cause that last Monday was the day from hell for travelers. Not just hubby and I but the whole flippin' country was having airport issues.
Our flight out of Baltimore was supposed to be a 9:10 flight to Midway in Chicago. After two weather related delays it looked like we were going to take off at 11ish. Yahoo...well maybe not. We did take off but 45 minutes into the flight, the pilot announced that that Midway had closed due to a fire in a control tower and that we were being diverted to Indianapolis.
After landing in Indy we sat on the tarmac for not quite and hour and we were back on our way to Chicago. Around 2ish we are at Midway but we had long missed our connecting flight to Kansas City. In all fairness it seems that a few thousand other folks had missed their flights also, so it isn't like we were alone in our misery.
When we finally made our way to the Southwest desk to try to get on another flight, the clerk insisted that all people that had missed their earlier flights (like we did that on purpose!!) had to be put on stand by for the next flight to their destination. In our case there was a flight going to KC at 3:55.
The good news is that we did get to board the plane...but the bad news is that our luggage did not.
Finally after getting to KC, we filed our bags as missing and made our way home.
The rest of the week took an ugly turn with another development.
Our 10 month old grandson has the worst case of chickenpox in the history of chickenpox.
What makes me crazy about this is there is a vaccine to prevent chickenpox but children don't get the vaccine until they are between one and three. According to medical professionals, children under one don't ever get chickenpox. I am here to tell you those medical professionals don't know what the hell they are talking about. This child has pox in his mouth, his ears, on his eyelids....every square inch of him is covered.
The big thing happening in Kansas City this weekend though is more serious than lost luggage and G-Boy #2 with chickenpox. This weekend there are numerous memorial events to honor the 114 people that lost their lives and over 200 injured on July 17th 1981 when the walkway at the Hyatt Regency collapsed onto the people attending a party in the lobby.
The Good for the Day....There is a little excitement here too. A lot of people (not me as I am not a shopper) are quite excited because tomorrow two Trader Joe's are opening in Kansas City. I don't understand why people are so happy about these stores but yet they are.
The Bad for the Day....Grandson is so unhappy.
The Weird for the day....The cause of the Hyatt Regency collapse was an engineering error that could have been corrected by a simple fix that would have cost about $25.00 according to the engineers that investigated the accident.
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