6 hours worth of delays and i've been in three states in one day

so, last night i decided that i would try this whole carry on luggage thing and not check my bag. i'm thinking this can't be that hard, but oh my was it ever! i mean, it is nearly impossible for me to cram all my liquid items in a one quart bag (i left my shampoo/conditioner/body wash at home) and still my ziploc baggie is popping open, haha. i bought some no name hairspray and the smallest shaving cream known to man, put my facewash in a tiny little bottle, my perfume is in a tiny little tube, my concealer, mascara, face lotion, benzyl peroxide, and toothpaste had to come...how does it all fit. somehow i managed. probably won't be doing this again, just saying.

so, my day started around 5:20 am. i get to the airport this morning and my first flight from charlotte to bradley (hartford) left relatively close to on time and then i went to my site. it was located in downtown manchester, connecticut. i couldn't find anywhere to park, except main street (a downtown area) and there were signs that read, "free parking, two hours." i was thinking i am not sure how long i will be at my site, but probably not much longer than two hours due to the fact that i had to get back to the airport. i went to my visit, in which, the SC then watched me monitor (very strange) and hardly had anything entered into our electronic data capture system, but still managed to get finished in about 3 hours. i walk down and get in my car and realize about a minute down the road, that i have a parking ticket. the CT police have given me a $10 parking ticket!

i head to the airport to catch my flight to philly to get to salisbury, and all the fun begins. my flight was delayed 2 hours. we finally board the plane and i immediately fall asleep. i sleep through some of the drama, but i wake up after we have been on the plane for an hour and realize that we are still near the gate, we haven't even pushed back, FUN, not. the pilot says, the ground stop has been lifted, so we are clear, we are going to push back and get out of here ASAP, air traffic control has given us a time of wheels up at 6:15pm. (note: original flight should have left at 3:40pm, then the first delay was 5:00pm). so, we taxi out and we are like next in line to take off, and the pilot comes over the intercom and says, bad news: another ground stop in philly, at least an hour delay... so we go nowhere. so, around 7:15 we finally take off and land in philly at 8pm, whew, four hours of delays, not fun.

when i landed in philly, i get off the plane and realize that my salisbury, md flight left me. i am hoping and about to go into some serious prayer that there will be another flight to salisbury tonight. luckily there is an 8:50pm. the us airways staff was not very helpful to me, but i am an old pro, so it didn't stress me out that much. then we get on the plane for salisbury and that flight wasn't necessarily delayed, but traffic was backed up so we waited forever to take off.

when i landed in salisbury, finally, i realized that the heartz representative decided she was tired of waiting on me, how kind. avis only had one car left so i took it.

i am super tired now, finally i am at my hotel. goodnight folks.