What a week!

So its been an interesting last week or so...
Flew up to Green Bay last Friday and was picked up by mom and Kelsey. We had a couple hour layover at O'Hare. We stayed overnight in GB and headed up to Escanaba the next morning. Spent some time with family and friends over the weekend (it was Whitlee's graduation party). Went and visited my great grandma's grave on Sunday. And we headed home Monday....well tried to. Mom dropped us off at GB airport around 1pm for our 2pm flight to Chicago. We boarded the plane and sat on the runway for about an hour because Chicago closed the airport due to thunderstorms. We finally got to Chicago about an hour and half late, so our connection may be boarding soon so we quickly walked across the airport to our gate. The plane wasn't even there yet....and it was scheduled to board in 5 minutes...nothing was posted about it being delayed. I ran back and grabbed us some Chicago dogs (mine loaded, Amber's naked). Turns out that flight was another hour or so late. But we did board the plane. We then sat on the runway for about 4 hours (literally). Finally the pilot said that we could not fly to KC because they would be over their 16 hour daily limit. So eventually the plane turned around and went back to the gate. While on the plane I called and got us booked on the next available Delta flight to KC (Tuesday night @ 5:30). We went to the customer service desk they directed us to, as did hundreds of other people, so we decided to say forget it and check into a hotel. We grab the yellowpages and made reservations for a Marriott Suites near the airport. We then had to search for Terminal 4 (which did not appear on ANY maps around the airport) Turns out the arrows point where we needed to go just pointed to a wooden box (the walkway was under construction). We finally figured out where to go and went the the hotel. It was a very nice place for only 150 bucks or so. The bar was closed, but were able to get an interesting assortment of items from the gift shop. We ordered breakfast for the morning as well. We were slow moving the next morning, in no hurry to sit at the airport all day. We thought about going siteseeing but didn't want to deal with the hassle of a taxi or anything. We got to the airport and after telling the ticket lady the machine wouldn't work for us, we finally got her to help us. We got put on standby for the 3:30 flight. We ate lunch and sat by our standby flight gate. Plane was full, except for 1 seat....no dice. 5:30 it was. We moved across the airport and sat at our gate. Some thunderstorms shutdown the airport for a couple minutes then everything was clear. Our plane came in and deboarded...then they told us that the windshield was cracked and would need to be fixed. This delayed the flight an 1 or 2. Right before we boarded they said that the flight was moved to a different concourse, so people took off for the new gate, then they said, nevermind we'll take this plane. We boarded and they were still working on stuff in the cockpit. Finally they get it all fixed up and we taxi onto the runway. Then it starts raining and lightning out...shuts down the airport for 2 hours. Feeling some deja vu.... Finally we take off and land in KC at 10:15pm on Tuesday (we should have landed at 8pm on Monday). Luckily through all this we didn't have any checked baggage...

Then I spent the week (3 days) working out in Leavenworth (4 hrs a day of driving: 45 minutes to the office, 1.25 to the site.) Craziness! I would have just stayed at Rob and Jen's a night or two but I had to pick up a guy in Odessa...

Also last weekend we started to prepare to build a chainlink fence in our backyard. Its going to be lots of work. We had to clear a lot of what looked like poison ivy. Neither Amber or I got a rash, so either we aren't allergic to it or it just looked like it...

Saturday we also took a tour of a B2 at Whiteman. Very cool stuff!! We got to sit in the cockpit and everything!! They are much bigger than I thought!

More fence work as we can, hopefully a lot this weekend!