Flight to MKE

On Thursday morning, we finished loading our pictures onto our website for our representative to review, we finished packing and then waited a bit for the shuttle to arrive.
By 10:30 the shuttle was here for us. Door to Door service - not bad! Certainly a lot easier than having us drive to DIA, pay to park and then pick up the car when we return home. Thanks Doug for the tip!

Ride to the airport went relatively well except for the lack of AC on the bus. Very hot and stuffy!
Arrived at the airport at about 1:45PM. Plenty of time to catch our flight to MKE. After checking in and grabbing a bite to eat we walked to the area where our plane would take off only to find that it was going to be delayed another hour. Apparently the plane that we were going to board was coming in from an area where the weather was a bit dicey. We boarded at about 4 only to be told that the weather in MKE was not good and we may have to divert to Minneapolis. In order to be safe, the pilot had the plane filled to the max in case we did have to go to Minneapolis.

Several planes were in line waiting for takeoff. Others had been delayed as well. During our wait time we were treated to a delightful lightning show. Beginning of the flight was a bit bumpy, but as we made it above the clouds all settled down. That is until we neared MKE. We were told by the pilot that he was going to try once to land and if that was not possible we would head north to the Twin Cities.

The clouds that we went through were phenomenal! They were huge! This part of the flight was beautiful, wondrous and a tad frightening all at the same time. I love looking at the various cloud formations and to be right in the middle of them was stunning. By the way, I only lost one fingernail during this time!

As we landed, we noticed that both sides of the runway were covered in water. It was like landing in a lake. We were told later that the airport had actually been closed down a bit before we landed because of tornado warnings. Landing was relatively smooth and we all gave the pilots a big round of applause!

We had to wait for our luggage for a couple of hours because of the torrential downpour and the basement of the airport having too much water in it. Our friend, Paul Fried was again waiting for us at the airport to take us to their home for the weekend. But we could not get out of the airport because it had again been shut down. We were told that we were the last plane to land before closing. Many people apparently spent the nite in the airport waiting for connections. We were very lucky! As soon as luggage was gathered we made our way out of the airport.
Before leaving, we had a chance to watch some of the news reports on TV to find that we had flown through and landed in one of the worst rain storms since 1986. 7" in less than an hour in some parts of the city. A sink hole on the east side that swallowed a car and driver. More rain than the area obviously needed.

Paul found a safe way home and we all headed to bed knowing that we would have to rise early in the morning for a trip to the Clinic for blood work!
Another exciting trip. What else would be coming our way? Wait and see.

Call for Images

On Wednesday morning, we received a phone call from our representative saying that the hospital that was purchasing several of our images wanted to see more images that said "Springtime". As we were leaving for Milwaukee the next morning, we had to look through our stock quickly in order to gather together images that would meet her requirements. By late in the evening we had put together what we thought were images suitable for the space and uploaded them for review.
Began our packing at about midnight and then crashed for the evening.
At least this time we did not have to have the shuttle service pick us up at 3AM. A more reasonable hour of 10:30 was picked in order to get us to the Denver Airport on time for our flight at 3:15.

Time to return to Milwaukee

Well, I guess its that time once again folks....
Must return to Milwaukee for another truck load of our belongings.
We are headed back to Milwaukee today to do an art show this weekend at the Wisconsin Lutheran College and to empty out our storage unit in Milwaukee.

Woke very early this morning at 2 AM with only about 2 hours sleep in order to catch a shuttle to Denver Airport. The night before we leave it always seems difficult to settle down and get some good sleep. Suppose it doesn't help matters much when we continue working and packing until about midnight!

Arrived at the Airport with about an hour to spare. Check in went fairly normal for us....that is I have to be wanded! Have rarely been able to get through without setting off the alarm. My magnetic personality?!

We arrived in Milwaukee at 6:30AM to find our friends, Paul and Maris waiting for us with our van that they had been storing at their home. On the way home we stopped for a bit of breakfast before going to Menomonee Falls where we promptly headed to our bed for the week and crashed! The rest of the day was just spent catching up and relaxing. In the evening we went to Bastille Days which is one of our yearly traditions. Peter ran in the 9PM 5K run! After only a bit of sleep a very intense couple of weeks and very warm temperatures, it was great to see him finish.

On Friday our friends left for their annual Fried Fest near Stevens Point. We headed to our storage unit to pick up and sort through the art work and display units that we were going to take with us to the Art Fair at the Wisconsin Lutheran College on Saturday. Long day and early to bed. Rising early on Saturday to be at the College by 6:30 for set up!