This might not seem like an adventure for some but I am so pleased with myself that I have to post this.
Rob flew out Sunday night to Omaha, Nebraska leaving me to get settled. We drove to the airport, I dropped him off and turned around to try and find home. I was a little worried because I haven't had a clear sense of direction since St. Peter, Minnesota. Utah you can never miss. The Wasatch mountains are East the Oquirrih mountains are roughly West (well the Salt Lake Valley anyway. You get the idea). I found it though I even got off the freeway and back on again and I found my way home. Well almost home. I got off the freeway at my exit and then remembered that Rob had the keys to the apartment in his pocket at the airport. I also left my phone at home. Luckily Rob's flight wasn't scheduled to leave for awhile so I found my way back on the freeway and back to the airport. I found a payphone at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport and called Rob. He was relieved. He had already gone through the security gates but a very nice security representative passed our keys through and Rob gave me a final wave over a crowd of people.
Not only did I successfully get back home but I never lost Sam my two-year-old who is determined to run away every chance he gets.
I can't take full credit for this successful outcome. Actually I probably can't take any credit. I prayed like crazy.
3 comments:
Holy cow! That sounds like it could have been a very stressful time--but you came through with flying colors. Way to go! :)
Erin, I think that would have been the most nerve-wracking experience I can think of -- driving in a brand-new city, negotiating around freeways, the airport, corraling 2 children and under a time constraint to do it before the plane left! So many people would have been swearing in that situation -- you prayed. Just another reason why we love you.
You're fantastic...that first you called it an adventure and that you could hightail it back to the airport the way you did. I would have just kept going home, calculating by process of elimination which window we could do without the most.
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