Daily Archives: January 15, 2010

If you are just joining this story, you might want to read Part One

she said  “do you have an extra key outside, I accidentally locked myself out….”  

Hmmmm.. this is not good, because we don’t have a key hid outside of our house… so what to do, what to do!! I am looking at Heelin Hottie, looking at the clock, and I know if we turn around to go back to the house, we will have to reschedule our flight. SHIT! Then I start thinking, “who do I know that has a key to my house” haha..like I just hand them out like candy. “here take a key, come by sometime” I know of one friend that has a key to my house and I know she is in town! GOLDEN!!  I tell my house sitter to hold on, let me make a call and I will call her right back. The whole time, I am thinking, she has got to be freezing, it is only 15 degrees outside, and she is going to freeze to death. Either way, it would take me an hour to get there. So I glance at the clock and it is around 6:30 and I really hate to call my friend this early. I mean lets face it, it is a Tuesday morning, she has to work, and the last thing she is gonna want to do is get up and drive to my house in the freezing cold and of course BE LATE to work!!

So I call and it rings 4 times and goes to voicemail…..

Hmmmm lets try this again, I call another time and it rings 3 times and goes to voicemail…..

I try again, it rings 2 times and goes to voicemail! UMM WHAT THE…….

So now what do I do? I said to Heelin Hottie, I don’t have a clue what to do now, I mean do I call again? So we decide we will try one more time.. I mean I really don’t have a choice and I feel awful trying this one more time. So it rings and rings, and rings, and then “HELLO” awwww thank goodness!! I tell her the problem, and she is such a great friend she gets up and goes over to the house to let our house sitter in, who at this point has to be an icicle.  She informed me that the reason why I had to call so many times is she thought the phone ringing was her alarm, so she just kept turning it off! HAHAH! Thank goodness I kept calling!

So we get to the airport! WOO-HOO! We are set!! We are running late, so we sprint to security, get thru that and then head to our gate. We get there and the attendant is standing out front asking us if we are boarding this plane, and if we are so and so! CLASSIC! Nothing like being the last people there, but you know what who cares we are going to VEGAS!

Neither of us has had a bite to eat, but we have a layover in Memphis, so this will be a real short flight. We are both already discussing what we are going to eat in Memphis… we are starving. So we get on the plane, if that is what you want to call it. It only has 13 rows, and it super small, however at this point I don’t even care..or I thought I didn’t. I have flown a lot in my life and the majority of the flights have always been pretty good. Turbulence has never really bothered me, until NOW! We are in row 12, and we take off and I am dreaming of food.. and counting down the minutes until we get to Memphis. We are about 15 minutes into the flight and the pilot comes on to say there is going to be heavy turbulence since there is a thunderstorm in Memphis. Okay, well that is no biggie, lets just get there.

Heelin Hottie and I are just talking, talking , talking, and ready to get to Vegas. We are both discussing all the things we want to buy at Cowboy Christmas, and all the food we want to eat since we are so freaking hungry! Then I start to feel sick… the plane rocking back and forth is starting to get to me. Shew we need to hurry up and get to Memphis! I try closing my eyes and relaxing and that isn’t working. Heelin Hottie can tell I am feeling super bad, so he is just leaving me alone. The one lucky thing about this, is our seats are right NEXT to the bathroom, I can literally touch them with my hand.  The pilot the informs us that we are going to be arriving a little late because of the weather. So now, I am pissy because I feel bad, and we may miss our flight to Vegas, and not that I feel like eating right now, but I sort of wanted the option!! COME ON ALREADY!

We finally land and once again, we are SPRINTING to our next gate. Food isn’t even an option, we are just trying to make our connection. We get there and it is time to board! The good thing is, it is finally a big plane! My plan is to sleep the whole way to Vegas. That always makes the flight go by fast and this is a 4 hour flight and I am tired and hungry, so sleeping sounds great. Hellin Hottie has his Spin to Win to read and we are set! Off we go, headed to VEGAS BABY!!

I curl up (as much as you can curl up on a plane, who designed these seats anyway???), and I am off to dreaming. Aww finally some sleep! I wake up, what feels like an entire day later, and look outside, okay we have to be getting close, all I see is clouds!! I look over at Heelin Hottie and say “what time is it, how long was I asleep, we have to be close right”

He starts dying laughing, and says “Guinness you were asleep MAYBE 30 minutes” WHAT! You have got to be freaking kidding me! Oh well I guess the lady with the beverages and the snacks will be a long soon! Ummm.. no apparently I had just missed her! Well….. surely she will be back by! So she came back by and I asked her for some peanuts, and she said “I am sorry Miss, we are all out of snacks” well my gosh.. it is just MY day!!

Actually it is MY DAY, because we finally landed in Vegas…let the good times begin!!