COLORADO was phenomenal. We went straight from DIA to Woodys Wings! Oh man, I love that place. I haven't been able to go there the last few times (and everyone knew I was bugged during those trips that I was being deprived of it), so we finally got to go. We later went to PF Changs downtown with all my sibs and their spouses and my parents. Then, most of us went to the Nuggets/Lakers game. Can I tell you how much I love the Pepsi Center? I loved going to Avalanche and Nuggets games there when I was still living at home. Plus, I got to sing the National Anthem there twice (don't worry, they were just high school basketball games, but still... Pepsi Center).
My mom planned a whole Thanksgiving feast for us, since we weren't going to be able to make it to Colorado for TG this year. (But rest assured, we get to spend it with the Denneys in Alpine and are SO stoked.)
This was the travel fiasco:
Last weekend, Collin and I took a trip to Colorado for the weekend. Since we're both technically in the retail business, these are harder to come by. We decided we'd take Friday and Saturday off from work so we could travel Thursday evening. This came back to bite us in the booty. Our scheduled flight was at 8:30 so Collin could drive down to SLC to meet me (I was already at the airport because I car-pooled with a co-worker to a training there earlier in the day). Anyway, we got through security in no time and got to the gate where we patiently awaited the arrival of the plane to take us to Denver. Well, the wait turned into a ridiculous night of zero communication and mass amounts of frustration.
The people working what must be the late shift were inexplicably incompetent. We had no idea what was going on, when we'd get on a plane or how we were going to get to CO. It turns out that the plane we were supposed to take had a broken part (always such a pleasant thing to hear when you're planning on taking it across the mountains in the air). So, they finally told us, after much "run-around" if you will, that they would create a flight out first thing in the morning to get us to CO. They'd put us up in a hotel in SLC and give us some meal vouchers for dinner that night and the next morning @ 730am. After a beautiful discussion, heavily suggested by my good Dad over the phone, they also agreed to give us free flight vouchers. I was satisfied for the time being.
We went to the Red Lion on the airport shuttle and ate at their cute litttle diner. We slept AMAZINGLY well. When we checked in they asked if we wanted a Queen or a King. Really? Ya haveta ask? Oh the King was fabulous! I can't believe Steffan and Amy waited 8 years into their marriage to get one! Anyway, we woke up super early the next morning to catch the shuttle back to the airport . We flew through security again and got to the gate where the carrier representative told me that everything was "a GO" for the flight and that we were at a different gate. It wasn't 15 minutes later when a fellow passenger we'd recognized from the night previous and the hotel came and sat right next to us, preterbed. "Can you believe this?" she asked. "Um, what?" She informed us that we'd be waiting until 11am at the earliest to get out.
The part and the mechanic finally flew into SLC just before 10 to do some damage control. FINALLY it was fixed, and we were on our way at 11:45am.
(i edited this to be last because the complaining was getting on my nerves...)
All in all, the weekend was a blast, even though we had a bumpy start. And plus, we got those flight vouchers so we are even closer to taking our vaca to Costa Rica next year. :)
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