Fine print

Remember the joy we felt at seeing this on the Southwest website? Remember the BIG BAG that I gleefully filled with everything in my closet. Well, we should have remembered to read the 'fine print' before packing.

Once we were mostly all packed , we felt rather smug about our new luggage. There were some nagging doubts about how we were going to lift it, move it and transport it but that was all erased by having our 16 pair of shoes and 49 books tucked away. Oh yes, and enough yarn for 2 sweaters. And then we read the FINE PRINT..............any bag weighing more than 50 lbs would be charged $100..... WEll, that got our attention. We made a half -hearted attempt at weighing it on the puny scale and finally accepting that it did weigh ALOT more than 50 lbs. The purging began. It was painful. By the time we got it down to the proper weight, what remained just sloshed around in this open pit. Oh the waste of space. So we went to bed to ponder and sleep on it. And one of us got up at 4 am and repacked everything into a smaller bag , weighing much less than 50 Lbs. So now we are traveling with 5 smaller bags and only left behind one beautiful hand knit shawl. We did good.

So we left Orlando on a very full airplane and had a smooth, clear ride. You all know how I feel about this flying thing but sometimes it's almost pleasant. We had a brief stop in Las Vegas......and then up to Sacramento.



VERSION 2.0



Those of you who have been regular readers of this blog will recognize the similarity between this picture and a previous one. I'm sorry to say he is still trying to perfect his eye shades while using recycled products. This time, his half used napkin.

And when you get to Sacramento and wonder what they do with all those lost bags...... there are TWO of these structures in the baggage area . It is very eyecatching.