Vance Tales

Well…we made it back from Alaska on Monday…finally.  You all know from my previous post what a crazy trip we had going to Alaska…well coming back really wasn’t any better at all.  Suffice it to say that Continental Airlines managed to turn a 6 hour flight into a 9 hour flight, causing us to miss our connection flight from Houston to Nashville (our connection was supposed to arrive in Nashville at noon on Sunday).  They could not promise us a flight out of Houston until 3:45 p.m. on Monday, but they could get us a flight out of Houston into Memphis at 6:00 p.m. Sunday night.  So Matt and I took that flight, arrived in Memphis a little after 8:30 p.m. on Sunday night, stayed with my grandparents that night and had my Dad come pick us up and drive us back to Nashville early Monday morning.  I made it into work by 12:30 p.m. Monday afternoon and Matt worked from home.  That is just a brief overview.  Suffice it to say that, if Matt and I can help it, we will never fly Continental Airlines again and we are unable to recommend it to anyone.  If you would like the whole grueling story let me know. 

On to good news!  Matt and I took approximately 400 pictures while in Alaska and will be posting some of those as soon as we get them cropped and edited.  Alaska is a beautiful state.  The weather was perfect (around 65-70 degrees the entire week) and the people were incredibly friendly.  We didn’t get to do as much sightseeing as we would have liked because Matt DID have to work and because we were limited by lack of transportation.  We didn’t get to see any wildlife because of time constraints…so, I promised Matt that I would take him back one day–but we will definitely be taking a cruise! 

More to come later on…