Into summer

Time flies! Such a lot has happened since I posted last.

We flew to Las Vegas to see our son Drew get married. I took pictures of course but Shayna took the camera (more about that later) so I can't post them yet. I will as soon as I get the pictures back!

It was quite an interesting trip. First off, I forgot the paperwork for our tickets. We were already a half hour into the trip to the airport and had to turn around and go back home. Yes, we really didn't need the paperwork because we had e tickets but I couldn't remember when our return flight was and wouldn't have access to the internet to find out at Expedia. So back home we went, eating up the extra hour I had added for emergencies.

We get to Lambert in St Louis about and hour before flight time. The first leg of the trip was uneventful after that. We actually got into Dallas early. We checked the board for our connecting flight and it was listed as being at gate D30, on time. Great! I don't know if you are familiar with Dallas International, but it has a tram that connects the different terminals. In the time between getting on the tram at our arriving terminal and getting off at D terminal, our flight disappeared from the board. There was a flight going to London at gate D30. No info from the airport or airline at all. We sat down next to a man who turned out to be from England and had arrived on the plane sitting at the gate. He was also waiting for the connecting flight to Vegas. They called him up to the counter (because he was an international travelor? Don't know) and told him that the flight to Vegas WOULD be leaving from this gate but would delayed at least an hour, they had to get the plane to London off first. Another woman had booked through Orbitz, they had sent a text message that the flight would be delayed but would be leaving from gate D10. Good thing for her that she overheard us talking or she would have been sitting at the wrong gate! So much for notifications from online booking services.

There was a group of young women who spent the delay in one of the airport bars. They were already loud and rowdy before even boarding the plane. We figured they were going to be obnoxious during the flight, and they were. One in particular spent the whole flight standing up leaning over the back of her seat talking to the others behind her, even though she was repeatedly told to sit down. The seatbelt light was on the whole trip because of rough weather conditions. Then she wanted to go to the bathroom (need to get rid of all that alcohol eventually, you know) and gave the flight attendant a hard time because she couldn't get past the drink cart. When we got to Las Vegas we had to wait while the cops came on board and hauled her off.

The wedding was nice. We stayed at Circus Circus and there is a wedding chapel right in the hotel (most of the hotels in Vegas have one, I would think) so they got married there. Drew wore a white tux and Andrea had a knee length white strapless wedding gown. Afterward we walked through the casino and they got a LOT of attention. You would think people would be used to couples getting married - it was Vegas, after all.