North Carolina Departure the remix

First off, Happy Mother's Day!!

Sooo, finally wrapping up my great week of vacation.
I'll refer back to the vacation as a whole in more detail throughout the week with color commentary and pictures for references, so stay tuned.
Anyhow, I write this blog sitting in a Hotel room in a Marriott in 'Cincinnati' even though I'm technically in Kentucky right now, something about Cincinnati's airport is not even in Ohio, strange, the Midwest can be nutty like that sometimes.
Soo, was due to fly out of North Carolina this even @ 6:30 to make it to San Diego by 10:00pm tonight (Mother's Day) and then from there I was going to drive through the night to be in Salt Lake by Monday morning, do some work, attend some training classes and visit all the friends and fam back home.
But all this changes, first off we were under severe Tornado watch in Raleigh/Durham where the airport is in North Carolina, as Riley is taking us to the airport, we're driving through pouring sideways rain, just looking at the looming black clouds, hoping that a funnel just doesn't start right over head. Finally end up making it to the airport, me and Nick fly out at about the same time, just on different airlines, but thankfully we're in the same terminal so we do the whole checkin and everything together. First off it must be noted, at check-in I was checked in by one of the most gorgeous women I've ever seen, she asks about Salt Lake, funn conversation ensues...anyhow, I digress, she assures me no flights are delayed or cancelled.
Get up to the gates, everything there appears to be in order, Nick takes off just fine, walk over to my gate and there is a huge line, everyone standing looking frustrated waiting for the people behind the counter to fix them. Evidently our plane had some problems getting into Raleigh and had to head back to its original starting place, but now was headed back. Only it would be coming a good 4 hours late, which was bad news for my flight taking off from Cincinnati toward San Diego...
So get up to the counter finally they change me up, I fly to Cincinnati, and am flying out to Salt Lake City first thing in the morning. Perks in this whole debacle: They were sold out of coach seats on the flight from Cincinnati to Salt Lake in the morning, so they unfortunately had to upgrade me to First Class, so I'll be riding in style. Secondly, they sent everyone else who had fliht problems to the Country Inn, here in Cincinnati, but by the time I got to the counter they had given away their last room, so I had to go to this gorgeous Marriott here instead, tough break :) Sat by people who also attended the Kanye West concert we saw in Raleigh, and chatted about the show for a couple hours, good times! Kanye is amazing.
Best Kanye quote right now:
"To whom much is given, much is tested" Trruuuuue that! :)