Homeward mission aborted

 After taking Josh to the airport on Monday, I headed up to Jonathan's house since he lives 40 minutes from the airport, and I like him and his family.  I spent Monday night with them and then went to the Springfield airport.

My luggage, all ready to go!  I initially arrived with just the green suitcase, but acquired enough loot to need to buy the $3 duffle at the thrift store.  Worth every penny!

I checked into my flight and waited.  I only had a 40 minute layover in Denver, so I was a little stressed about leaving on time.  When they announced the flight would be delayed at least an hour due to a maintenance issue, I had to change my flights again.  So I did not fly out at 11:30am as planned.  I had to cancel that flight and I was rebooked on a 6:30pm flight thru Chicago.

I was relaying this info back to my folks and my dad suggested that maybe I should return to their house instead.  Mom had taken a turn and he felt maybe I needed to come back.  I called Dan and he said that he and the girls supported me staying and that they would be fine.  He rebooked me on a flight leaving a week later, and I planned to go back to Mountain Home.

However..... when I went to ask for my luggage back, they discovered that they had already put it on the original flight heading to Denver.  Aaarrrgh. So my luggage went on a trip without me. 

So, I went and got a rental car, that I paid too much for, and my trip was now extended another week.