…oops, where was I?

A friend this morning reminded me that I hadn’t finished blogging the trip. Sorry about that.

Days 5.5 through 8 were spent in the DC/Maryland area doing another tradeshow. Full 8 to 10 hour days, and each was complicated by the bruising from the fall on day 5. Hard to stand when you can’t breathe.

Trade show ended on Tuesday, but due to the late timing and the fact that Huntsville International had no flights in at 4am, I stayed the night and flew out Wednesday morning.

Again, got up at 5am for a 10am flight, left the hotel by 6, then drove the hour back to the car rental return at BWI. I gotta say, I’m fairly impressed with the Dodge Charger that I got as a rental. Decent power and mileage. Got to the airport just shy of 8, leaving the obligatory 2 hours to sit and sleep in the airport terminal. Thankfully, no problems with the Air Nazis this time which was an amazing surprise.

Home to Huntsville, got there about 3 with a layover in Atlanta. Got home after a $62.00 parking fee (which is rediculous for Huntsville and LONG TERM parking), fed and watered the kids, then collapsed.

Got back to work Thursday, but I was pretty much “phoning it in” both Thursday and Friday.

Friday, 4:30pm, got home and collapsed. Woke up Saturday about 12:30pm, which should please Rob because I woke up about “the crack of noon”. Waste of a good Saturday, but necessary.

LONG trip, and VERY expensive. Got my Amex bill with $4000 worth of charges on it for booths, shipping, travel, etc, so I’m STILL putting together reimbursement requests 5 days later.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone…