This is our week to be in San Francisco for the American Institute of Architects convention. To get there we had a connecting flight from Las Vegas! Our third time there in 60 days! Technically.
We were to leave Tulsa at 10:00am, but thunder storms in Dallas delayed the flight. They announced that we would leave at 11:00 am. Then 11:40! Then they announced that the plane meant for Tulsa had a defective toilet and they switched planes. It got to Tulsa at noon.
I was paged to come to the counter (Usually not good). They saw that we would miss our connecting flight in San Fran and booked us on a later flight, a 1:50 departure. Ok so far.
We get to the terminal in Vegas at 1:40 pm. We literally ran from gate 9 to gate 21!
The good news is we made it. The bad news: Nobody ran with our bags.
They tell us at the San Francisco airport that when the bags arrive, they will bring them to our hotel. At this writing they have called to say that they have them and they will be at our hotel before midnight. Yea!
We take the BART to our Hotel. All is well. Right?
We check in at the Hilton and the credit card that we use on trips is declined! It seems that yesterday Carol paid off our balance and Visa decided (in their words) that since we had paid off a large balance, they would put a hold on our card for 4 days! We even used a bank draft to pay it! Go figure.
I will say that Southwest Airlines was very helpful during the trip and nothing like the American Airlines debacle of last year.
This is going to be a great trip in spite of the start. By the way, it is cold here and as you may know this area has the highest cost of living in the USA. They remind you every time you want even a Coke.
Tomorrow is the Sonoma Wine Country tour. Some one tell John Paul Gilliam that I am doing homework on his class from two weeks ago.
We are running loose in America!
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