arghhhhhh.. after 3 hours on the tarmac, then 6 hours  of waiting around for an air traffic control problem .. we started to reboard our flight.. As soon as we started to move, they called out that the flight was cancelled. .. The airport was a mess !

 

I was able to skip the line.. but all the local hotels were full. teh only place i could find was abput 35 miles west  at a fancy horse riding spa.. I got there about 2AM ,. so i did’t get to check out the amenities of golf, spa, horseriding, fireplace in every room.. i did get 6 hours of sleep for which I’m very greatful

 

i didn’t hacve my bags so I couldn’t run.. but I did manage to take a walk.. it was 90 degrees.. so a short walk called for another shower. 

 

I left for the airport around 1.. and and have been here since about 2. My flight tonight is already two and a half hours late.. it’s a special flight needed to get the flight over there.. there are only a few of us on it.. should be a real party. 

now I’m in the airport lounge looking at my travel companions..  

 

ok. 

i only have 2 hours until boarding.. i need to get ready 🙂 

nite all. nite sam

-me

 

About to board a flight back to Munich after a really great week mostly off.. I got some great time with Diane and the dogs, caught  up on sleep, hiked, ran, saw friends, gave up beer for a week.. and generally became a bit  more human again

i’m hoping this relaxed feeling carries me at least until tomorrow morning 🙂

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

Ps .. major air traffic disruption.we came back to the gate we’re already about six hours late. It’s looking like we will all be stranded here tonight. Next flight is tomorrow night.

The lovely world of work travel ..

 

 

 

Diane and I had a slow day.. nice end to a very nice vacation.. I only worked about 25 percent of the time.. which seems like time off. 

we spent a good deal of the day with our friend James. ..   James invited us for a barfeoot hike of the hills behind his house.. it was really fun .   James’s yard itself is fun !  He has such creative uses for stuff.. .like TV’s 

 

 

then it was time for the hike..   (Diane wearing boots this time) 

 

the woods were saturated with rain like everythign else here.. soemthign Chai didn’t mind at all !

 

there was mud everywhere.. 

 

and slippery logs to climb 

 

james took us up to his ‘gym’ .. a place on the mountain where he has weights, bars, etc. to work out every day,. at 69 // he’s very fitt. Diane and I have to scurry to keep up with him.. and  people who know us know we’re fast hikers. 

 

i put a new samstone next to the one we put here 4 years ago .. in the snow. 

i picked up some foliage on my hike !

 

mud was deep 

 

 

then back to james for a quick cook out 

 

now attempting to ramp back into work.. looking at my email backlog.. 

oh my

glad I had the down time.. up time.. here i come

 

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Nice quit day with our cousins Jordanna, bret, foster and zevi today… i think we’re cousins.. .. though at last count we’re 12th cousins once removed… we’re realted by my great-great grandmother in lithuania.. It was nice hanging out with them !

we took a quick walk down to  the river. 

 

 

then drove u to stowe. Ben and jerrys was packed.. so we decided to check out the balloon festival .. 

 

while we waited  for the launch, the kids tried their hand and rock climbing 

 

the weather looked ominous.. with a few showers coming and going. but t made for nice rainbows !

 

we ran into our favorite lizard woman Megan !!!!

 

 

then they started filling the balloons !

 

meanwhile Brett won a chair in the drawing !

 

baloon head !

 

we got home, fed the girls.. then headed ovr to brads.. to celibrate and honor wha would have been our freind Pucket’s 26th birthday. Pucket died a year and a half ago.. 

 

it was good coming together to think of him.. 

 

ok.. time for bed.. 

more tomorrow

nite all, nite sam

-me