Managed To Score A $200 Travel Voucher

I'm back! It was a nice trip except for one thing. I had a cold the ENTIRE time. I came down with it on Saturday when I arrived and even thought I tried to convince myself that it was just a sinus headache from the plane ride, I had to admit it was a cold when my sister came down with it a few days later. It was a miserable cold too. I was in a cold medicine haze for most of the week, I couldn't taste Thanksgiving dinner, and I didn't start to feel better until Friday then I left on Saturday. Oh well. Someday I will have a flexible schedule so that I can change my plans if one of us is sick. Someday I won't be a prisoner of only TWO WEEKS vacation for the whole year. Someday...

Landing in Phoenix yesterday was quite painful because my head was still stuffed up and the pressure from the long descent in to the airport was slowly moving around from my nose to my ears to my jaw and around again. I was glad to get off the plane but I had to catch another flight to Tucson. While I was waiting, the ticket agent announced that the flight was oversold and they needed a volunteer to catch a later flight. I used to do this all of the time but I haven't managed to get on a crowded flight in the last few years. I volunteered since I didn't have to be at work the next day and happily collected my $200 ticket voucher for a later trip. The next fight was only an hour later so it wasn't a big deal at all. The flight at the next gate was offering a travel voucher, hotel room and meal vouchers. Too bad I wasn't going to Santa Barbara.