My Luck Update

So just as soon as I am done posting my travel issues does another one happen. I should have known when both my flight to Detroit and home from Toledo were on time that something else would go wrong.

On Friday I leave work to hop on the el to go to O'Hare. I assume, hey its Friday, traffic will be bad so the el is probably my best bet. Wrong! I wait almost 30 minutes for the train. It then takes an hour and 15 minutes to get to O'Hare...UGH! Of course I miss the 40 minute bag check cut off to get on my flight and the later flight (9:30) is oversold. GREAT! I ask the lady if there is anything they can do - nope, nothing. So I proceed to throw out my liquids smash my purse into my suitcase (to consolidate into 2 bags) and then get through security with a bag I know won't fit in the overhead. All I can think is great - now what...what if they give me a hard time about gate checking my bag.....double UGH! I finally make it to my gate - which of course is the about the last one in the airport and thankfully the people agree to gate check my bag and I get on the plane to Detroit.

After a great weekend at home with my Mom I drove to Toledo for work on Monday and Tuesday and caought a flight home on Tuesday night. Again - I should have know. Flight is on time even though it is snowing. A miricle when you are flying into O'Hare. I turn in my rental, check my bag and go to the gate. Then of course I realize somehow between filling up the rental car and getting through security I've lost my credit card. I mean really....how does this happen. I call and cancel my card - get on the plane - and arrive in Chicago only 30 minutes late. I go to the baggage claim to grab my bag and I'm thinking I'll be home by 7:30. No such luck. After waiting an hour for my bag....I've determined that somehow they have lost it. File a claim - get a Starbucks (because everything seems better when your holding a Starbucks) and then wait by the baggage claim as Ben drives from the city to pick me up. Honestly, I waited another 40 minutes and just when I'm about to leave my bag comes rolling out. Finally! All I can say is at least I went home with my bag - even if I had to wait almost 3 hours for it. And I wasn't the last one from my flight waiting for their bags.