Planning for travel always flusters me a bit, but I'm slowly fine tuning the process. I have a long "to-do" list on my iPad and getting through the last minute items occupied most of the morning. My brain was going in a thousand different directions and as I would start to do one thing, I would remember something else and promptly forget the first task.
Eventually everything seemed to come together and shortly before noon everything on the list had a check-mark next to it. I was feeling somewhat confident that we were ready to go. After all...this was just a one week cruise. How I will cope with planning for lengthy travel? Most likely not very well.
Today's part of the journey was just a 3 hour drive to get to our son and daughter-in-law's home just west of Minneapolis. On many trips, we have booked a hotel near the airport where we could leave our car parked and take a shuttle. This time our son had offered to drive us and our flight time was relatively convenient for him to drop us off and then go to his office in the Twin Cities area.
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| I am thankful for a husband who is willing to do the driving. |
Spending time with our grandkids was an added bonus to our arrangement, but the fun was overshadowed by what we were seeing on the weather forecast. For a cruise that had already been totally changed due to weather this prediction just continued the pattern. Hurricanes...and now a blizzard.
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The snow was not scheduled to start until sometime during the night so I suggested that perhaps we should leave our son's and find a hotel near the airport rather than make the one hour drive in nasty weather during rush hour the next morning. Of course Bob responded as most males would...NO.
Sleep was fitful. I got up a couple of times just to check weather (nothing happening) and also look at the clock. I had 3 alarms set on my phone, but was still worried that maybe we would oversleep. The first was set for 4:30 am and I was up before it went off. It was going to be a long day...
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