Saturday

Oi! This was my first real experience with a plane...that I can remember, anyway. We arrived in Flint for our flight with no problems...except that we were really early, which isn't much of a problem. After sitting for a couple hours, we found that our flight was delayed for a couple more hours. We got to chatting with a young guy sitting next to us and found out that he was a student where I go to school too...and he was in the seat right next to me on the plane- small world!

Anyway, we finally boarded the plane around 6 or so and took off to Atlanta where we were supposed to catch our connecting flight. It was about a two hours trip...made me a little woozy but sure got us there faster than driving. We landed in Atlanta and had dinner at a cute little burger place in the terminal. We were supposed to depart at 10:50ish and found that our plane had been delayed...again. crappy storms up the east coast had thrown off the entire day's flights and we didnt end up leaving until about 1am. After another hour plane ride, we arrived in the Jacksonville airport and due to the time change, it was now 3am.

Every wondered what an airport looks like at 3am?...This.

Now, seeing as flights were still coming in, you would think that employees would still be around, right? Wrong, you are. We arrived to a dead airport...no passengers, no employees and especially no rental car employees. Mom had registered a car through Alamo and they promised they would wait for us....apparently they forgot, or thought we got lost, or something. We called their 1-800 number and learned that they would re-open at 5am, so we just decided to wait in the airport for them to arrive.

At five, Mom was finally able to get the keys to our car and Viola! we got an upgrade! We got a Toyota Highlander...little SUV with a power sunroof...Excellent! We managed to navigate out of the parking lot and out to the island without much trouble and since we were both already awake, we decided to just stop and get groceries on the way out the island. We finally pulled up to the condo and 7am, unloaded groceries and went straight to bed.