Day 3 Back

We got home from Romania on Sunday night after quite an adventure of digging our way out of our street in Braila, driving through the snow, shopping a little in Bucharest where it was snowing like crazy, short night at the hotel and early to the Bucharest airport to catch our flight to Munich. It all went off w/o a hitch. (I hope to post video of some of that adventure soon.)

In Munich we had a few hours layover and most of us had not slept much the couple of days before but we were headed home. We boarded our flight to Dulles (Washington, DC) where they had received 2 ft. of snow on Saturday/ early Sunday. It was a long flight filled with many laughs, movie viewings, and restlessness mixed w/ a little sleep.

Landing in Dulles and claiming luggage for customs and passport control was crazy. As before mentioned, DC had received 2 ft of snow and 75% of the airport ground crew did not show up for work. We finally got luggage, made it through customs, rechecked our luggage and have not seen it since. I dreamed last night that it is in Chicago and will come today. Crazy dream. I did talk w/ United and told them I would settle for $1000 compensation for my two lost bags and they said they would look harder.

I have done little since being back. Monday was filled with doing very little, but I did get a 5 mile run in for the first time in about 10 days. Tuesday was a 10-miler with my running buddies from work, Pancake Pantry breakfast, a chiropractor visit and dinner and grocery shopping with my bride. And a nice Starbuck's visit with Shelbi and Morgan. Good times for sure.

Today has been yard work with raking leaves and mowing the yard. It looks good by the way. Ran a couple of errands, did a little Christmas shopping so my wife would not everything she got herself from Christmas from me, and picked up some Big Bad Wolf brisket for dinner tomorrow night.

Oh, and Monday we went and saw Shiloh who is a new adoptive baby girl of our friends Todd and Angie. She is beautiful and here is a pic if you are interested.

Looking forward to an afternoon of nothingness. The pic above is our group digging out a bus wide path about 90 yards and drifts up to 5-6 ft deep. We were determined to get home. About 1/2 way through we found a snow plow driver and paid him to finish it off. God bless the snow plow!