I'm Home!

I arrived in Richmond on Wednesday Jan 12 at 12:30pm just in time for........lunch? breakfast? I had no idea as I was so screwed up with the jet lag!  And only fourteen and half  hours late due to weather in both Chicago and Richmond on Tuesday night. 

When I disembarked from my 13 hour journey from Shanghai to Chicago on Jan 11th, we were informed that all the flights to RIC had been cancelled.  A quick re-booking for the first flight out the next morning (7am), a discount coupon voucher for the lovely Marriott O'Hare Hotel and into a shuttle bus I was directed.   Ten minutes later I was standing in line waiting for a room.  Easy as can be, checked in and headed to the room.   After a nice dinner of Chicago style pizza and a glass of wine I went back to the room and had a power nap from 10 - 2am and then I was up and hungry!  Fortunately I had taken my leftover pizza from my dinner to the room, so a snack of cold pizza satisfied me!

I watched a bit of TV and then grabbed the shuttle bus at 5:15am back to the airport. While waiting for the first flight I happened to glance out the window and I noticed two guys on the top of our plane taping the tail with duct tape.  OMG.  Really? So when I saw the pilot get off the plane I walked over to him and asked about the duct tape and then re-confirmed that he would not fly if the plane was not suitable.  (Hey, you never know) He said no problem, we often use duct tape.    OMG.    I left it at that.

As you can ascertain, I made it safely to RIC.   After a wonderful week visiting with Vicki, Mom and Sophie I am now in Sarasota, FL visiting with my dad.  The weather was a balmy 79F yesterday and will be about 66F today, we had some rain this morning that cooled off the air temp.  I shall be here for a week before returning to Virginia.