How funny that my last post was about getting back from Canada and my post today is about me leaving for Florida!

Once again it’s the same old, same old, “I’ve been busy.” School started back and as my husband says I am obsessed with my job. That’s a whole other story in itself. We had quite the mess going on in my school. We had a big mold problem. They decided to take the carpeting out of the classrooms in my pod and put in tile. So… for three days or so we could not be in our classroom. I felt like such a hobo. No real place to go. The main reason for this post is…. after school lets out tomorrow Colin and I are heading to Florida!!!

Fall break officially begins tomorrow once school is out. We get off for a week, so Colin and I decided back in the summer that we really wanted to go to Disney World again. We LOVE Disney World. :X We’ve both been a ton of times, but Colin has never been in October before. We’re staying at the All-Star Movies resort. We love the All-Star resorts and we’ve never stayed at the movies on before. We bought a six day park hopper so we are doing all of the parks. There’s a lot of rides and shows that we both done with our families but not with each other so we’re so excited! The other major thing we are doing is going to Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party! We’re both dressing up (me as Cheshire Cat and he as the Mad Hatter). It is going to be so much fun! I can’t wait! The only maybe bad thing is that I’m sort of sick right now. Lots of drainage, snotty stuff, etc.) I actually can’t even speak very much right now. Hopefully this won’t get in the way of me having an awesome time!

The other neat thing about this trip is that we are driving down to Florida. Colin and I have been to Disney World together twice before. On our honeymoon we flew down there (which was awesome!). It took like 2 hours to get there or something crazy like that which was amazing! His family and my family all went together at Christmas time back in 2007 and we all drove then, but Colin and I rode with our families. This will be the longest drive either of us have ever done. Fun, fun, fun! I will post pictures when we return.

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.