Home Again

Wow, we finally made it home after a very long day of travel yesterday. We were up at 5 AM for final apartment prep and an early morning ferry departure of 6:50. However, when we got to the airport, we discovered that they cancelled our Silver Air flight from Marsh Harbor to Ft. Lauderdale. The ticket agent was great at his job though, told us to go have a seat and he would get us other tickets. About 20 minutes later he had us fixed up with a Bahamas Air flight at 10:20 to West Palm Beach, then we had to wait until 3 PM to fly United to Newark, and then another 3 hours to wait until we flew into Albany. It worked, but was tiring, and Newark is a huge airport with shuttles and monorails to different terminals. While waiting at our gate in WPB, 6-8 armed sheriff officers were standing around talking. When the plane we were due to depart in arrived at the gate, they all stood around the entrance and waited while people disembarked. I saw one officer nod his head at another and they cornered about a 30 year old lady who acted like she didn't know what was going on. One officer stayed with her while a few went on the plane, and others were stationed around in case whoever it was they were after tried to escape. Finally a man in handcuffs was led off the plane with the same women talking on the phone right behind him...probably calling her lawyer! It looked like a scene from Seal Team and everyone at our gate certainly was intrigued with the what was happening.

Anyway, since we were late add-ons for this flight, they couldn't find seats for us together, so I sat behind him...with a young couple and about an 8 month old baby in their laps. Oh joy. All of you who really know us know that we don't have kids so don't know how to act around them.😉 Before take off, the baby started fussing and then crying and no matter what the parents did, the little girl wouldn't stop. Thankfully, as soon as we lifted off the ground the baby fell asleep and remained that way for almost the whole 3 hour flight. When she did wake up she was much happier and we made friends with each other, as they were teaching her to say hi.

We were so glad to get home, thanks to Jim who picked us up at the late hour, but then the work started at 11 PM. Luckily the heat in the house went on no problem, but when Dave fired up the pump, a pipe had burst so he shut it down. It couldn't have been too bad because he did fix it and everything else in the system seemed to be okay, except for very little hot water coming out of a couple of faucets. Having well water really builds up the minerals and corrosion so we will have to soon take off the faucets and clean them out. At least while he worked on the house systems, I had time to totally unpack and get everything put away. By 1 AM we finally called it a night and hit the very cold sheets. It takes so long for walls, furniture, etc. to warm up after a cold winter.

What a shock I had when I opened up the refrigerator to find the inside was loaded with yellow. All I could think was that some animal had gotten in and peed everywhere (we leave it open a crack to air out). I then saw that we had left some Mountain Dew cans in the door and 3 of them exploded. One went right through the plastic shelf that I had put it in case it did split and thought it would catch the soda. I never expected them to explode like this!

The lids were on the glass shelves...

The soda had hardened on the bottom and it was like rock candy, having to scrape it off with a knife in places. We won't do that again!

Now it's time to organize and do tons of yard work. It must have been super windy up here this winter with huge branches down everywhere. Dave says the trails in the woods are a disaster. So you know what we will be doing. Tomorrow though, we head to Ticonderoga to check the house up there and see what's new.