I arrived home from my Canada trip to Edmonton, Jasper, and Calgary late Friday night. My husband, myself, and two suitcases made it home but one bag did not. Yes, someone in Minneapolis did not do their job and therefore we were short one piece of luggage when we arrived in Nashville. I was very irritated by this. When you travel you of course run the risk that something may go missing. 99% of the time, you end up with all of the luggage you began with. I’ve never had a problem with lost or delayed baggage before, nevertheless, I was not a happy camper.

The Delta rep at the Nashville Airport lied to us and said our bag would be delivered to us at 9:26 a.m. the following morning. Did it arrive? Nope. I had been checking the status of our bag on Delta’s website, but it just kept saying that they didn’t know where our bag was. (Which worried me more!) Finally, I called Delta’s baggage number and was on hold for 35-40 minutes before I got to talk to someone (at around 12:20 p.m.). The lady I spoke to told me my luggage was still in Minneapolis and would be in Nashville around 1:20 p.m. It still worried me that my bag would go to baggage claim where someone would have just taken my bag if they had wanted to. She told me that once it was in Nashville and was not claimed, a Delta representative would scan it in and prepare it for delivery which could take about an hour.

It was a big waiting game. At 10:00 that night, I finally got a call from a delivery service saying that they had just gotten my bag at the Nashville Airport. (Took more than an hour obviously…:P) I could either chose to wait up for my bag or leave a note saying the delivery guy could leave it by my door. I finally went to bed at like 12:00 a.m. Still no luggage. At 2:06 a.m. the doorbell rang and I was reunited with my bag (which contained most of the stuff I had bought while in Canada!).

So now that the luggage drama is over, I am happy to be home. School starts back in about twenty days. The first week of August I have meetings and things before school actually starts on the 11th. I’ve got a million things to do to get ready! I’m still uploading pictures from my trip, and once I have those all sorted out, I will post them on Flickr and maybe a couple on here as well.

Have any of you ever had your luggage lost or delayed while travelling? It is such a pain. I’m lucky that it wasn’t my suitcase with my clothes and medication. Still, it was an annoying situation I was not expecting to have to deal with once arriving in Nashville.

I am not finished with this layout. There are lots of little things I want to add or tweak. But… I have been too busy to do any of that!

I got a new car! And by new, I mean brand new! When Colin and I got our big income tax check with the new homeowners $8,000 credit, we knew we wanted to get a new(er) vehicle so he could have my white blazer and we could get rid of his. His is older and rides like a beastie. We kept putting off looking at cars. Well we finally got to it a couple of weeks ago. For three days we drove all over looking at SUV-type things. I’ve only ever drove a blazer and didn’t think I would like driving a car that would be so much lower to the ground. I also wanted an SUV because it would most likely bounce deer off of it. I am very picky about color and I didn’t want something black, white, red, or silver. That narrows things down a lot! To make this story that’s starting to get long shorter, I found a celestial blue Mazda 3 and that’s what we ended up going with. Yay!

Last weekend my mom and I had a yard sale. For the two days we had it we ended up making over $500 all together. We wanted to get rid of things badly so prices were cheap! What we had left (and there was a ton left!) we gave to the mother of one of my students I had this past year. She’s started a place where people in need can shop for free!

Tomorrow, Colin and I are leaving for Canada. We are flying out of Nashville so we have to get up early. Later tonight we are taking Annabelle to my parents’ house. They are going to cat-sit her. I have a ton to do, but don’t really know where to start! The hardest thing to pack is clothing. I guess I will pack a little of everything since there will probably be cold and warm days.

With all of that said, I will hopefully find some time to write whilst in Canada. I’m sad I can’t just use my iPhone freely while there. Hopefully I will find lots of wi-fi spots so I can send messages from Twitter.

This time tomorrow I will be on an airplane!!