Traveling Adventures, Part 1

Early yesterday morning, 3 co-workers and I left Portland for St Louis with a lay-over in Minneapolis. All was going great... I started and finished a book during the flight. We landed in Minneapolis and got some food.

Then... our flight was cancelled. Yeah. Cancelled.

Fortunately, they were able to rebook us on a later flight, and we only ended up having to wait 5 hours. And they gave us food vouchers (for, as my boss put it, the pain and suffering we endured). Because the voucher can only be used at one place (not like cash, they don't give change), we strategically combined our food orders so that we could maximize the benefit of the vouchers. So, we all enjoyed philly steak and chicken sandwiches for dinner -- and had enough vouchers left over to hit up the Ben & Jerry's scoop shop. Definitely eased the pain and suffering there ;)

And, really, the 5 hour wait wasn't bad at all. It was nice to have travel companions to talk to the whole time. In addition, the Minneapolis airport is huge -- so I took advantage of the opportunity to get some mild exercise in and walked from the far end of one terminal to the far end of the other (about 15 minutes one way... walking quickly).

We arrived in St. Louis around 9:45 pm. Fortunately, the Sunday night sessions we missed weren't that big of a deal. Strangely, it felt really late... so Liz and I went to bed before 11 pm (which would be 9 pm back in Portland... which is really early for me as of late).

The sessions went well today. This post is getting long... so I'll write more later.
Also, Liz took pictures while we were in Minneapolis, so perhaps I can post some of those when she downloads them.