It’s Back to Reality

On Saturday, the boys and I returned from vacation at my parents’ house on the intercoastal waterway in Savannah. The temperatures were pretty moderate, which was great. The boys attended a day camp in my parents community where they did crafts, games, swam and learned some basics of tennis and golf. And I got the longest stretch of time to myself without working or the kids in years! It was nice to recharge.

Delta, Delta, Delta…
We flew out from Harrisburg on Saturday June 9th. At least we were supposed to. While waiting to board, the gate agents were trying to recruit people to get bumped to a flight THE NEXT DAY because they were overbooked by 5 seats. Apparently they didn’t get enough takers and called me up to the gate and told me we were being involuntarily bumped. I was less than pleased. Very long story short, we were compensated with three $400 vouchers for future flights (more than we paid for the tickets, maybe that’s why we got bumped!) and were put in a cab to a trip to Baltimore to catch a flight from BWI. We didn’t get on our flight from there until 10:00, which is approx. the time we were originally to arrive in Savannah. So in each airport, we had approx. a 2-hour wait until the flight left. It’s bad enough when you’re on your own, but to also have to entertain two kids was sure a challenge. Luckily we had a superball, a pool light foam football and two little stuffed animals in their carry-ons so we made the best of it. And we got to sit in first class from Atlanta to Savannah so that wasn’t too bad either. Unfortunately, we did not get consecutive seats on either leg of the flight. But we finally reached our destination approx. 10 hours after we started out that morning.

The flight back was so different. We didn’t get bumped. And we had the nicest flight attendant on the Atlanta to Harrisburg leg…Janice. Drew, my 5-year-old was tired and grumpy that he had to sit across the aisle from me and not next to me (the plane was a 2 seat on one side and two on the other configuration). So he started crying and the flight attendant talked to him, calmed him down and gave him and my other son cookies and treated them like royalty for the flight. What a different feeling than the trip to Savannah. Since every leg of the flight on the way down was overbooked (Harrisburg, Baltimore, and Atlanta) I decided that you could fly on Delta in perpetuity for the price of one flight if you kept giving up your seat, lol.

One day my parents and I went to lunch at the Starfish Cafe. Check out the highlighted link. The food was great and so is the mission of that restaurant.

Also did a little shopping, went out on my dad’s friend’s powerboat (no better way to see River Street in Savannah) and went to Tybee Island Beach. The water in the ocean and in the pools in Savannah feels heated. Mid-Atlantic water is much colder!

So now it’s back to work and summer hours are in effect: Tuesday-Thursday from 8-4. Enjoy the summer!