My travels to Carbondale.

Last weekend I got to travel out to Carbondale, IL, to visit my sis Daryl who is a student at SIU, Southern Illinois University.  Whatta weekend!!!!  We had a BLAST, but it was not without drama, including……

**5 hours of waiting for a delayed American Airlines flight in Orange County, on one of 3 days that AA decided to cancel 1,000+ flights for safety checks….O…M…G….NOT FUN! 

**One hour spent cleaning an overflowed toilet in the good ol’ college house…….

**15 total hours of travel from Carbondale back to Loma Linda, including a 4 hour layover with a delayed flight out of Chicago, my luggage getting stuck in Chicago in spite of the delay thanks to a “broken baggage system”, said luggage being delivered to home at approximately 3 am later that night, this weary traveller forgetting to give them the code to the gate for the complex, and the delivery people calling 3+ times to be let in before I actually answered…..DRAAAAA-MAAAAA! 

All this not to be outdone by my OFFICIAL most embarrassing moment on the plane from OC to St. Louis:  Utilizing a borrowed Portable DVD player, approximately 1 hour spent listening to the Sound of Music (you can’t make this up people), audio emanating from headphones AND speakers….Yes, that’s right, everyone around me could hear that the hills are in fact alive with the sound of music, but apparently everyone is not as excited about that as me and Fraulein Maria, because the flight attendant had to come by and tell me they had had complaints.  I have never been so mortified in my LIFE!  And it took me about 20 minutes after the complaints to realize that the audio was coming out of the speakers in addition to my headphones, and fix the problem! 

But, in spite of many hours of waiting, several hours of misery and one hour of embarrasing obliviousness, there was enough sister fun time to make up for it!  Next time I will read the DVD player directions first….oh my word……