Dad went out to the Southwest United States. He visited the Rockies and the national parks in Utah. He was in Death Valley, Sequoia, and Yosemite yesterday and today. I wish I could be out there with him, but I was able to fly out to Las Vegas on Friday night to meet him for the weekend at least. And it was a great weekend. As some of the weight loss experts say, “I got the furnace going again”/ cheat days. We ate so much food. As you can tell from the video below, I eat a lot. Tomorrow, I will go back to Planet Fitness.
Las Vegas is nice when you have a car. I don’t really like extroverts and massive amounts of people and noise, so 48 hours in Las Vegas is all I can handle. But we did a lot. With the car, we were able to drive to different hotels including eating at an Irish pub at Mandalay Bay. We also went to the Hoover Dam.
You might have seen on the news about the fire at the Cosmopolitan. We were actually in the hotel minutes before. We went over to Planet Hollywood to get the Garrett’s popcorn mix and came out and saw many fire trucks.
My flight on Sunday night left at 10:55 p.m. It arrived in Fort Lauderdale at 6:45 a.m. The plane let the passengers connecting to a Baltimore flight leave first as their flight was departing in 2 minutes. I figured I had plenty of time as my Orlando flight left at 7:43 a.m. Little did I know, my flight was in a different terminal! When I heard this I tried to follow the signs, I saw a bus that said “Terminal 3″ and I got on. I basically looped around and came back to Terminal 4 as Terminal 3 was very close to Terminal 4 – probably less than a block. Then, I had to go through security again! I kept hearing “Last Call for Orlando Flight 548.” It was like 7:20 a.m. After security, I ran really fast to the gate and made the flight with like 10 minutes to spare….so “Last Call” was called too early, but if I didn’t have the ability to run 1/4th of mile fast, I would have had trouble.
I was annoyed. I don’t believe I “get angry for nothing” as the picture in the next post says. I think I have valid complaints. I just emailed the airport. I don’t think businesses spend enough being a guest in their own establishment. What is it like when a person doesn’t know the layout of the airport and is under a time crunch? How many airports make connecting passengers within the United States leave a secure area? Orbitz et al. should be notified not to send passengers through that airport under short connection times. My annoyance also stemmed from me being tired probably.
Anyways, I made it to work on Monday morning and all was fine. The weekend was great actually except for transportation issues. I can tell you about the taxi driver another night.