Return from Florida

After being gone on our adventures for so long, Colette and I were really looking forward to heading back to the real world and our own beds.  Nothing too exciting happened, but the day's happenings could be called adventurous.

We checked out of our hotel just before 11:00 but then had a few hours before we needed to be at the airport.  We decided to go check out a town called Celebration as it was originally owned by Disney and made so that no cars were allowed.  We got there and found that it was no longer owned by Disney and was very much like a regular town except with narrow one-way roads.  We saw a few gators in the local ponds and thought the town to be cute.  We found a few indoor flea markets and shops and mostly just browsed.  We eventually made it to the airport and then split ways with Sara as she was flying home on a different airline but would be landing in SLC about the same time as our flight.  I had never been in the Orlando airport and found it quite interesting that there is a hotel in the middle of the airport!  I guess that could be convenient but it was weird!  All of the rooms looked out over a courtyard that was the lines for the security check point.

Colette and I had a layover in Denver.  We had to wait to land due to weather, not too big of a deal as we had time before our next flight and if we couldn't land, that meant no one could take off so we wouldn't miss our flight.  The problem was that the weather didn't go away.  When it came time for our flight to be taking off and we were still sitting in the terminal, the airline people got on the intercom to explain that federal regulations were that there had to be  ten minutes between lightning strikes before any planes could take off, the problem was that we saw lightning outside the window every twenty to thirty seconds as this was being explained.  We knew Sara was on her plane so we couldn't call and explain this to her so we sent a text she would see when she landed.  We were about thirty to forty-five minutes late when we finally boarded which was awesome to finally do, but then we had to wait in line on the tarmac for at least thirty minutes before our turn to take off.

We were about an hour late by the time we finally arrived in SLC and then we had to wait forever for our luggage.  We found Sara, who waited for us (she's an amazing roommate!) and then we were off for home.  It was so nice to be home.  Steven, Randi, and Rowan stayed in our apartment a few days while we were gone as they were moving to California and needed a place for a few days.  It was nice to know they were around to keep an eye on things even if it did confuse my friends and neighbors.  Needless to say, we all went to bed and slept in the next day.