Going Home

My sister helped us check out of the hotel, return the rental car and then drove us to the Denver Airport. It was sunny and warm (in the 60s F.) We had no issues checking in. Then we went through security. The “fun” began then. We were directed into a short line that lead to a bigger line. The guy who checks the IDs and boarding passes told us that because of the chair we could cut in front of everyone waiting to go into the full body scanner. There was a TSA guy just standing near-by doing nothing and I asked if he could help us get through all the people and he said he wasn’t allowed to do anything to which I replied “Of course not.” Then I had to try to “cut” in front of lots of people who hadn’t heard what the first TSA guy had said and thought we were just being rude. A female TSA employee came and took my mom – I watched her the whole time – and I waited to push all our items through the x-ray machine and then to go into the full body scanner. They only had a few lines open and there were lots of people with many TSA people standing talking to each other and not doing their job. I don’t like the airports like Dulles and Denver that have one security area for all gates/terminals -  they should separate them. When we were finished with security we had to take the train to our gate. We got to our gate and I saw the same idiot woman that we dealt with our bags when we arrived. I just ignored her (knowing she was going to get in trouble for how she treated us.) This time the plane was completely full. My mom sat by the window while I sat in the middle seat (we had to sit several rows from the door because other passengers from the previous flight wouldn’t be kind and move.) A very large woman sat next to me and kept hitting me and taking my space. It was not very comfortable. The flight itself was fine. Luckily, they didn’t get the 6-12 inches of new snow that was expected so we weren’t delayed.  We landed, got our bags, went to the car and then headed to a diner we know for some food (even though it was 10:30 pm.) We then drove home. Our driveway had about 5 inches of snow and it was -10 F with a windchill of -25 F.

The trip was decent. It was nice to see everyone (although they got us sick.) It was also nice to be in the warmth and sunshine while in Colorado. I still have no desire to live in Colorado Springs. The city is disorganized with businesses thrown everywhere. Also no one has any real yard. All the houses are grouped so close together and then across the street they have open fields.