Tuesday, August 15, 2006
In Denver... Missing: ONE LARGE BACKPACK!!
I'm in Denver. I've had a day of supervisor training. I'm still wearing the clothes I left home in yesterday morning. My bag is still stuck somewhere in Chicago, I think. Other than that... I'm doing great!I spent the last week meeting people for dinners and drinks and chatting before I left. It was a great week but left me little time for packing. I left it all for Saturday. But Saturday night I had dinner with my family and then we had to have a fire just for fun. So I only got 2 hours of sleep that night, and Jessi stayed up to watch movies and pack with me.
Sunday morning, all 5 of us went up to see Grandpa Lloyd at the nursing home. Then Mom, Dad, and Jess drove me to the La Crosse airport to catch my flight. Luckily my backpack weighed in at 46.75 pounds which left me 3.25 to spare before they would have started charging me. I flew into Chicago, and as I was walking down the corridor I heard, "What? You're too good to say HI!" or something to that effect. And it was JEFF!!! We had talked earlier about meeting up since he flew into O'Hare that morning around 9am after a weekend in Montreal, but I didn't think he'd wait for 3 hours to hang out with me for a half hour. But he did! And then my flight was delayed 10 minutes so we had extra time to chat! That was probably the highlight of my day. Because once I arrived in Denver, my backpack, which pretty much holds all of my belongings for the next 6-8 months, was not there. After filing my missing baggage report, I went out to find my shuttle. Some guy standing next to my shuttle driver told me my driver had been waiting an hour and where had I been. I told him that first my flight was delayed and then one of my bags didn't arrive. JERK!
The other highlight of the day was meeting Susan who was also riding on my shuttle. She's a Lead Dining Attendant, and she's new too! We are both in the same boat, so it was really great to talk with her.
My hotel suite is AMAZING!! A couch, a kitchen, nice bathroom, big bed!!! What more could a traveling girl ask for?? Oh yeah... my LUGGAGE!!
This morning I was up bright and early to catch my shuttle to Raytheon headquarters at 7:30. We had supervisor training today, and of the 35-40 supervisors, there are only 5 of us that are brand new to the program! I met my boss and her boss and my co-worker too since we were all at the same session. I was amazed that many of the people I was sitting next to or working with in groups have been down to the Ice for 7 or more seasons. A few of them have been down 18, 20, and 21 seasons. This doesn't mean years... it means summers or winters. That's how Ice time is measured apparently.
I walked a mile and a half down the road to Wal-Mart tonight to get some supplies and a new t-shirt. Hopefully tomorrow my bag will arrive because otherwise I'll be flying to New Zealand with almost nothing!!!!!
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oh crap...that sucks. I hope you get it soon!
last time i knew a girl with a lost backpack she ended up with a husband....be careful!
(that makes no sense to many people, i realize. katie, if youre one of them, sorry.)