02.24.10
Home from Kenosha!
Wow, what a ride! I just got home from, for me, a marathon plane ride. From Kenosha to Milwaulkee (via Lexi’s Generous Taxi Service!) from there, scanned, wanded, patted down, both carry on and checked luggage searched! I expect to be wanded it because I do have a Titanium Rod in my leg from an old Motorcycle accident, but I have never had a bag neither checked nor carried on searched. Odd feeling- but oh, well. its for my safety right? Hummm…. Then into the terminal to sit for the prescribed 2 hours of preflight. From there, my Flight to Baltimore and a 20 minute layover, then off to Denver for another 20minutes, then home to Orange County. Actual time on the plane? I haven’t got a clue! I started at 1:25pm Milwaukee Time, then to the east coast where it was an hour and a half flying time and a one hour time zone loss- then a 5 hour flight to Denver and a loss of 2 more time zone hours, then to OC for one more time zone after 3 1/2 hours of flight time. So total = ? Again, who knows? I felt like it was two days! And when I was picked up, just to add to the wonderful excursion, my sweet girlfriend pulls up in her Mercedes (the luggage fit on the drop off!) with a trunk full of Face painting gear- turns out she thought she’d cleared the trunk after the gig on the Saturday before. – Oh, well, a quick 40 minute round trip to drop off one bag of mine and the face painting gear, then back for me. I was whooped.
Though thouroughly tired, it was a hugely successful trip- I not only got to visit my Grandchildren, got to teach my Maddie a few new twists, and got to Jam with wonderful friends and show off my Daughter and Son-in-law to them at Twist and Shout, I also was able to do an out of state birthday party to expand the publics awareness of the things we can do with balloons! Happy Birthday Maddie, Emilie, Maya and Lauren!
Huge thanks to : Chris and Lexi for their Hospitality and love, the Grandkids for being themselves, to Miss Sharon and Abba for sharing and extending trust to their daughter’s party entertainment to a far a way stranger and to all the new friends I met at Lexi’s and at the Party! What Wisconsin lacks in temperature, it makes up in friendly open arms. Going back, I will do two things though, 1. Spring! I won’t go back until the snow melts— and 2, a direct flight there and back! One can OD on Peanuts and Pretzels- not a good thing.
