What wonderful story do I have to tell you all today? Unfortunately my queenly duties were rather slow this week and with too much time on my hands, I tend to get homesick! As my director, Amy Duvall wisely told me, “It’s the hardest during down time and holidays.” Just my luck, I had both coming up with Easter Sunday just around the corner. After returning from Missouri and spending a bit of time doing miscellaneous errands and running around Oklahoma City for a day, I was relatively out of things to do! Amazing, right?
This past Monday I became curious and bounced around on various airfare websites only to find ridiculously priced tickets to return home for the holiday weekend. I had the tough realization that the high prices were my sign I shouldn’t go home for the short spell. However, as Amy and I scanned the various tickets to get me home on Monday evening, her husband Tom noticed a very reasonable ticket that we had overlooked. Drive three hours north to Wichita, Kansas and save a few hundred dollars? You bet! Needless to say, I booked Monday night and left Tuesday morning for my trek home.
As usual, my flights give me wonderful stories to share on my blog! I may have saved a few bucks by booking the way I did but not without paying for it in extra stops and travels. Let me briefly sum up my trip home to Ellensburg. Tuesday morning I drove 240 miles from Henryetta, Oklahoma to the Wichita, Kansas airport, hopped a plane that took me to Denver, Colorado, switched planes to get me to Portland, Oregon and barely made my puddle-jumper connector plane that brought me into Seattle, Washington. Five states in approximately 12 hours! I’d say I’m getting the hang of this traveling deal!
While I was rather exhausted from whirlwind traveling, it felt wonderful to come home. I may have only been away for six weeks or so, it was nice to return once before the bulk of my traveling gets underway. I sure picked a great weekend to come home as well! Not only did I make it home for Easter, our local high school rodeo was in town over the weekend. What a wonderful time I had surprising friends that I knew would be enjoying the Saturday performance of the rodeo!
Today is Easter and I’m just waiting for the whole family to come through our front door for the holiday celebration. How happy I am to be apart of these activities that a few days ago I wasn’t planning on partaking in! Well folks, I’ve got a serious craving for some deviled eggs and I’m about to raid the kitchen for them! Happy Easter to everyone and I’ll be returning to Oklahoma shortly – so tune in to hear my adventures traveling home, I’m sure I’ll have some good stories!
Glad to have you home for Easter! Thanks for the adventures last night! Have a safe trip home, love you sister!
Posted by: Jessica | April 14, 2009 at 12:05 PM