Back home in Oregon...

Well, the vacation is "officially" over, being that I'm sitting in mi casa watching golf on my own TV and sitting on my own couch. Unofficially I still have to travel back to the airport to pick up Anthony and Bobbi and my own luggage that seemed not to make it on the plane I came in on... Delta/KLM = Shit.

Our day started out early because we had a 10am flight back to Oregon. When we went to check in, Anthony and I couldn't get a seat from the kiosk so we had to wait in another line, while Bobbi was able to get a seat assignment so she was pretty much ok to go. Since we wanted to have seats together we tried to get that and they told us that the flight was overbooked and that Anthony and I may not even be able to make it on the plane. This is one of those things that make me think, WTF, when I buy a ticket on a plane 8 months in advance. After talking to a person on the plane, I found that they'd overbooked the plane by about 30 people. Perhaps I need to work in the airline industry to figure that out, but to me that makes no sense at all??? So, Bobbi and Anthony ended up staying another night in Amsterdam, I think... And I ended up trading her tickets and getting a flight home. Big thanks to Wendy for picking me up and waiting so long while I had to deal with "missing luggage" along with 10-30 other people who's baggage also didn't seem to make it. Seriously, wtf. The only baggage I carried on was my netbook and Ipod so at least I have that.

Big thanks to Jasper, whom I let borrow my home for a few weeks since he started some new work in the area. He left a nice 6-pack on Drop Top on the top shelf of the fridge and the first thing I did was pop it open and remember how much I like our Oregon beer. While I'd definitely say I've had some good beer over the course of the past 6+ weeks, the beers brewed in Oregon have easily become some of the best beer a person can possibly get. Perhaps if it's only the fact that there's a beer for everyone here. Needless to say, my eyes lit up and I got a big grin on my face when I saw some Drop Top in the fridge. It's fitting that my first meal back in the states was a frozen pizza I'd left in the freezer and a good beer, a nice welcome home as far as I'm concerned. :-)

I'll be updating the blog some more in the next few days so I can add some pics and put in some stuff that may not have made it into the blog while we were traveling. Right now I just kinda want to sit around and not do anything the rest of the day, and hopefully blow off some jet lag a bit.