Another flight from hell

Why do airlines do us so dirty????? 😭

If you’ve been reading long enough, you’ll know that last year I flew to Ithaca to see Jenn’s sister. It was a great time except for one thing: our first flight (The very first one of my entire life) was delayed a crazy amount of time, leaving us stranded on the plane for over an hour. It was an awful time and one I wished I would never have to do again.

Then, I had to do it again.

Fortunately, the way there was completely fine. Aside from waking up at 3:30 am to get to the airport and having a very quick layover where we literally had to run to our next gate, things went about as smooth as possible and we made it on time to celebrate the graduation that night.

The problem was on the way back home, our first plane ended up getting super delayed. It seemed like everything was going to be fine and the plane was going to get just a little delayed at first, but the clock kept ticking and ticking until it turned out it was going to come a whole two hours later.

We ended up hunkering down in a QDoba and just went with the flow. It ended up working out though – we booked another flight that only ended up getting us to Milwaukee an hour and a half later than the original itinerary. That meant we still had some time to do the things we originally planned to do when we got in: get some good food at KPot (which was delicious!), flip through some records at Half Price Books, and get some coffee from Qamaria.

The drive home was very easy since we ended up getting on the road around 8:30pm.

I’m happy to be back home though, and I’m hoping I don’t have to deal with any airport Shenanigans anytime soon though – I don’t think my little heart could take it.

As you can imagine, I’m pretty tired from all of this and it’s why my post is coming to you a day late. To make up for that and the lack of writing, I have many many many photos below and I hope you enjoy! (PS: If you’re reading this via email, you may have to go to the post directly on Substack since there’s not enough room for all of the photos)

Me at MKE running on only 3 hours of sleep!

Super long line at the TSA

But we made it!

In Syracuse waiting for Jenn’s mom (yes, we’re wearing matching tshirts for Abraxas Wax)

^There was a working mini train in the grocery store!

Seen on the way back from the graduation

There were a ton of these little guys at the library next to where we were staying!

Probably one of my favorite photos I took on the trip

An old building by our place; felt like something I’d see out of Breath of the Wild!

I didn’t get one this time, but I always think these are so cute 🥺

Jenn at Moosewood, excited to eat some good lunch (little did we know we’d end up eating here THREE times this trip!)

The robes at the spa reminded me of Skyrim

Amused at how they spelled Stephen King’s named at the used bookstore (he had a WHOLE column for his stuff. He does have diarrhea of the mouth so I wasn’t surprised.)

Moosewood round two

Moosewood Round 3 – the brownie there was delicious!!

The last photo I took before we knew our flight was delayed

Hotpot!

yummy cake from Qamaria

Silly looking album art for a J-pop album I found at half price books

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