megan, my mom and i where on our way to michigan for my cousin madisons graduation party. our plan was to fly from seattle to minneapolis to travers city. after a heck of a time getting through getting checked in (two days a week nwa has a direct flight to tokyo... which left the same time as our flight. thats an extra 300 travelers trying to get checked in) we made it to our gate just as the flight began to board. while waiting at the gate i discovered that the earlier flight to minneapolis had cancelled, which meant we were not getting on that plane to minneapolis or any other that day. but by near chance at the next gate the flight departing a half an hour later was headed to detroit... a long story short, i managed to get my mom and i on the flight after much deliberation with several gate agents, but not megan... (this all happened VERY FAST! i ran over to the other gate to wake my mom up so that we could board) i told megan to wait at the gate until she saw that plane leave the gate, her plan was to try and get on a later flight. when my mom and i got on the plane (we were the last ones to board) we noticed a couple of open seats but the gate agent was on a mission to get the flight out as soon as possible, even though she knew my wife was waiting at the gate and there was an open seat for her on the plane. the flight attendants assured me that we would not leave with out megan, so the gate agent ran down the jet way to get megan (but megan was told that there was no way that she would get on the plane, so she started walking out, but turned around and ran back after hearing her name shouted from afar). so after all of that megan, my mom and i all got on the plane that was oversold... and we all sat next to each other in the same row-just another day of non-reving.
while catching our breath and laughing about this whole crazy half an hour, my mom turns to me and asks how this would affect our bags and if we would make our connecting flight in minneapolis... i said, mom... this plane is going to detroit... the look on her face was awesome. we had lots of good laughs and memories from this trip. we made it to travers city, stayed in a sweet summer house, and made it to the grad party as planned.
lake michigan looks like a friggin' ocean.
the harbor at lake charlevoix.
madison the graduate, and uncle preston.
megan getting her game on. good form.
