We made it home from our trip yesterday, but I didn’t include this picture of how we navigated thru the Atlanta airport. 

Way way way better than pushing a stroller thru the airport 🙂

We left the hotel at 5:15am and started our journey towards Atlanta. Melody was able to get our flight changed to be a day earlier, but we had to drive to the airport.

The journey should take about 6.5 hours, but with all of the evacuees heading out at the same time, we got there in 11.5 hours. We ended up taking alternative routes the whole way there so we didn’t get stuck in gridlocked traffic.

We also stopped four times for gas/bathrooms.

And the kids slept great once we got in. Buddy boy really likes the boy doll Grandma got him.

We are on vacation in Daytona Beach and the hotel staff is preparing for hurricane Irma by playing sand bags everywhere. 

We will be leaving tomorrow before they evacuate the entire resort. 

Waiting to go to the beach with Grandpa. 

A sample run of both the car seats in their bags. Too bad I have to unpack them so the kids can ride in them to the airport, then pack them back up before flying. 

To get ready for our trip to Florida, I had to install a lighting kit for the travel trailer to get our luggage to the airport. 

Took more time to take the car apart than it did to install the cable. 

I woke up to an email from Delta letting me know they upgraded the first leg of my journey home to first class. 

I’m pretending that they think I’m extra special and will get upgraded on every flight from now on. 😂

I’ve been using Duolingo for about the last two years trying to up my Spanish fluency. 

Yesterday I downloaded Memrise (again, as I’ve used it before) to my phone again to give me a new challenge. 

This app seems to focus on listening, which is usually the hardest part about learning a language, able to hear was a fast native tongue says. 

I haven’t outgrown the free plan yet, so it’s free to try 🙂

I really wanted to keep our 2006 Pontiac Grand Prix until it turned to 200,000 miles. Well, we surpassed that quite awhile ago and got 215,000 yesterday. 

Spent time today entering all of our expenses from Spain into a spreadsheet so we can deduct them from our taxes. 

Next time, I’m going to spend a few minutes each day documenting rather than several hours at time. 

Today we wrapped up our team meetup in Austin and we all headed our separate ways.

One of the benefits of working at Automattic is that we can choose flights with times/layovers that are most convenient for us.

Today’s my wife’s birthday and I planned on getting home by 5pm so we could celebrate by going out to dinner.

Everything was going well until I got to the Dallas airport (DFW). Our flight was originally delayed by 30 minutes. And then 30 more minutes. It finally ended up boarding more than 2 hours late and we left nearly 3 hours late.

Now I’m going to have to book it home to have a chance to see my daughter before she goes to sleep.

I can understand that weather related delays will happen, but my flight was delayed because our plane was parked somewhere else and we had to wait for two hours for someone to drive the plane to the gate.

Oh, the joys of flying.