Ordinary Miracles

Stressful day saved by Ordinary Miracles

Today was a rather stressful day for me. We are into the construction project pretty heavy now. I am the everything person on it. I do love it but today I decided to take on Rexburg City Hall. The cost of the permit and the process to get it was getting out of control. I talked to a couple of City Council people and other builders. So I headed down to get an explanation of why things are the way they are. I wanted a full accounting of the costs and where the money would be spent. I explained we are very stressed by their process and prices. They gave answers to all of my questions. I still disagree with the costs and the time it takes to get the permit. However I walked away with my permit. So on Wednesday we will go to the City Council meeting and tell them what we think. I came home tonight with my head overwhelmed and Berta had posted this song. I love it and so am posting it also. It helped to calm me down. Anyone remember when I was a shy girl. Where did she go?

Fire works in October?

Not sure why but they are shooting off huge fireworks on campus. I ran to get my wonderful new camera, but alas I left it at the office. So sad. My little one was here but just is not the same. Still kind of pretty even if a little blurry.
Update, we got our luggage back last night. The end of the saga. New one starts next week as we head to Peru on the 20th.
Today was one of the most beautiful golden days I have ever seen. The fall colors in Rexburg are the prettiest I have ever seen.

Travel tales

It was nice to see Chicago in the rear view mirror. The heat was unbearable. The Chicago Marathon was about to take place and consumed the city. 45,000 runners to run in the race. We talked to lots of the participants and they were nervous about how hot and humid it was going to be. (Update on marathon: they had to stop it mid race due to the excess heat and number of runners down with heat stroke). We had a great time but the timing to leave was good.
So I would like to share what all happened to us while traveling on this trip. It took us 25 hours to get home from Chicago. WOW!

• Tuesday morning we left our house at 6 am for the relatively short flight to Chicago.


• Minneapolis airport closed...waited hours to take off from Idaho Falls


• Circle over Minneapolis airport due to heavy rain
  
• Land in heavy rain


• Flight to Chicago was cancelled


• Wait hours for the next flight. Very rough flight to Chicago


• Luggage trapped in overhead bin...took 1/2 hour for service men to get it out


• Saturday afternoon started return trip to Idaho, left Chicago in record heat wave


• Fly to Minneapolis


• Flight to Idaho Falls cancelled just when we were ready to board


• Northwest Airline told us they would not get us our luggage, they would not provide a Hotel room, no meal voucher, no little toiletry kits (this was at 10 pm) Another passenger told us that her coworkers call Northwest...Northworst.


• Up at 5:30 am to head back to airport. No breakfast is available this early


• No reservations had been made by Northwest on Delta (told us they had) Not sure where our luggage our is. Delta cannot find out where they put it.


• Fly to Salt Lake City (they no longer feed you on flights)


• Barely make it to Idaho Falls flight, no time to eat yet (we did get a bag of peanuts that have maybe 10 peanuts.


• Confusion on plane as to how many passengers should be on board. Wait 45 minutes while they try to resolve this issue. Pilot announces that the Circus act is over and we will now be able to depart.


• Arrive in Idaho Falls 25 hours after leaving Chicago. No luggage arrived.
  
• Takes one hour to file missing luggage reports. Nobody is helpful and not sure where the luggage is.


• Luggage never did make it back to us yet. So sad. Jeff's new clothes in it.
  

So we left record breaking heat to arrive in serious snow. We were saddened to see the major damage to the trees in Rexburg. The snow was so heavy and the leaves still on the trees caused them to break off due to weight. It looks like a tornado went through town.