Christmas was on a Friday so this year I flew in town on Wednesday and left on Monday. That gave me all of Christmas Eve and the weekend which was about perfect. I can only hang out in the home town for so many days. Unfortunately I didn't get upgraded to first class on my flight out. About 10 minutes after we were supposed to have taken off the flight attendant announced that we were too heavy and asked for a volunteer to get off. Some 130 lbs woman got off the plane and about 10 minutes later they came on and asked for another volunteer. Eventually someone else got off the plane. 10 minutes later they came on and asked for two more volunteers. At some point a flight attendant also got off. After some time we queued up for take off and eventually got in the air.
All that wasn't too bad because I was scheduled to come in to Detroit 45 minutes before my sister. I turned out to be only about 30 minutes late. Dad was waiting for me in the cell lot and after I got my bags and got in the car Beth called and said she was ready. On the way home we stopped by the jerky store. The place has awesome, fresh, thick jerky of all kinds. Later that night I met up with Ben at a bar out in Sylvania. It was a good thing too because I didn't end up seeing him again during the trip.
Scott and Jen showed up after the drive from DC on Christmas Eve. Christmas was pretty typical. We rolled out of bed late and ate breakfast around 11:00. Then we opened up presents. I was bad at getting a list out this year and got a bunch of CDs and books that have been on my x-mas list for awhile. I did pick up the car mount and charger for my phone and that has worked quite well when using it in navigation mode. Later my Mom's brother came over, we had appetizers, ate dinner (yummy Honey Baked Ham), talked, and the old people called it a night.
On Saturday Beth had a wedding shower. Then after some Mancy's Italian I went over to Corey's house with Adam, Nick, and Brett. Karnes and Tony showed up. It was a good night of swill and chill. I remember some snowflakes while hanging on the back patio. Corey has a nice house. The two little ones were asleep upstairs. Kim eventually stopped by. Bummer Ben and Abby were on call.
On Sunday Matt and Beth's Matt flew in to Detroit at about the same time. That night I went out with Matt over to Adams. Adam's girlfriend Heather was over and it was the first time I hung out with her.
On Monday it was snowing pretty good. CNN also caused a ruckus by talking about non-existent long lines at the airport after the terrorist attempt and bathroom incident two days in a row. I did get upgraded to first class this time and was able to avoid the rather long line at the ticket counter. The security line was quite short but I bypassed that as well. Once through security I had 90 minutes till my flight was boarded.
After a few drinks and some snacks I walked over to my gate and found out I was moved and a bit delayed. It turned out the reason for all this was that our plane had a mechanical problem and we were given a new plane. A new plane with 15 less seats. This caused a clustermuck at the gate counter and more delays as they sorted out those who didn't have seats and those volunteering to give up their seat. Eventually we boarded and made the 59 minute flight back to DC. Unfortunately all the snow in DC had melted.
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