I'm home...and recovering

The conference trip was nothing like I expected it to be. Most of the classes were a waste of time. It was being with all my friends from the bulletin board that was the best part.

So Thursday evening, my mil drops dh and I off at the airport. We had two hours until our flight left for Denver. I was so nervous and excited all day that I didn't eat. So of course I'm starving and grab some pizza and drink a huge drink. Then we putzed around waiting to board our flight. I almost didn't know what to do with myself because I didn't have to worry about kids or anything and my dh was with me. We haven't done this in years. I couldn't read my ticket very well and although I thought I was putting dh directly behind me when I made his reservation, it turned out that he was two rows behind me in the middle. The ticket agent rearranged his seat so he was an aisle seat in the middle of the plane and fixed it so we were closer on the way home.

As soon as we get in the air, we start playing on our Nintendo DS systems. It was great fun. We IMed each other for about half the flight since we couldn't talk to each other. I've also forgotten the bad part of drinking huge drinks. You have to pee a lot. Thankfully I only had to get up once to pee. But I had to dislodge 2 other people to get up and since I'm not small, it was cumbersome.

The real fun began when we arrived in Denver. The only flight available on Frontier to get to Jacksonville went via Denver and we had a bare 20-25 minutes to catch our flight. I also had to pee sooooo bad! We got off and raced to the gate we needed to be at. We were at A53 and had to race to A39 or something. Thank goodness it was late at night and no one was in the airport. I thought I would pee my pants and stopped to relieve myself. By then Jason caught up with me and we ran the rest of the way to the gate. When I got there, they had already closed the door but since there were like 5-6 people show up, they opened it up and let us on. Thank goodness! I was huffing and puffing and coughing my brains out cause I couldn't catch my breath from running. A sweet lady that was in the aisle seat moved so that I could have entire row to myself to lay down. I think on that flight I slept maybe an hour or so at most.

We arrive in Jacksonville and it's just after 5am. We figured out the shuttle service after some confusion and made it to the hotel around 6am. I didn't realize how humid it is in Florida. Wowzers. We tried to check into the hotel early, but understandibly they didn't have our room ready yet since it was still occupied. So we parked ourselves on the couch in the lobby and stayed there for nearly 5 HOURS. Jason would check every so often to see if our room was ready but it wasn't. We got so little sleep that night. I honestly believe I ended up with maybe 2 hours of sleep or dozing off and on time.