Trip Home - June 15, 2012

For some reason I found this funny.  In ALL my travels with students over the years during summer holidays, I have NEVER had a student be late to return to the coach, I have never had a student get sick and have to remain at a hotel (and remember I have traveled with both insulin dependent diabetic and pregnant students.)  I have NEVER had an airline lose our reservations, I have NEVER had to fly standby, I have NEVER missed a flight connection.

I thought traveling with adults was going to be a restful, rejuvenating experience!  But we had one lady get lost at St. Kevin's Monastic Settlement and we had to send someone out looking for her.  One lady was sick several days and stayed in the hotel, missing out on wonderful fun.  Air France lost our reservations for the flight home on Friday and we had to fly stand-by.  Then when I got in to Orlando, I didn't make the connection to Atlanta and I had to spend an extra night in Orlando (at airline's expense, of course.)

Before going on this trip, I thought it might be time to give up student trips and begin to travel with adults.  Oh, well -- changed my mind on that one.  I'm going to send the travel agent I work with on student trips a big thank you as soon as I get home for all the wonderful work he does for me!!

I hope to be back in a day or two and begin putting my own pictures on line and take more in-depth looks at what I discovered during this Irish journey.  I'm especially interested in talking about the quilting stuff I learned from fellow travelers.  For now, I'm getting ready to head back into the Orlando Airport and start another day of travel to get back home!!