Minne weekend.

It has been a hectic couple of weeks!

This past Thursday I was leaving Portland to fly home to Pierre.  Well, the United flight was extremely delayed due to the incoming flight being late and bad weather in Denver (where my connection was).  When I was finally able to get off the plane I sprinted to gate A but it was too late, my flight with Great Lakes had already left.  So there I am, in the HUGE Denver airport, frustrated and super annoyed about missing my flight because I had absolutely no control over the situation.  I was able to get a room at the Double Tree by Hilton near the airport for a discounted rate.  It was a very nice hotel and the bed was super comfortable.  I was glad I had a great place to stay for the night.

My king size bed at the Double Tree by Hilton

Denver Airport Security check, yuck.

The walkway over to gate A

Friday morning I took the shuttle back to the airport and took the earliest flight to Pierre.  Unfortunately, I had absolutely NO time to go home and do laundry, or pack, or spend time with Pip because my flight from Denver landed at 11:53am and my flight from Pierre to Minne was at 12:17pm!  It was a long two days but I finally was able to make it to Minneapolis with no problem other than the fact I only had dirty clothes with me.  Thank goodness I was able to do laundry at my good friend, Katie's apartment.

Other than my hectic travels my weekend was fantastic!  It was nice to be able to sit down and paint my finger nails and drink wine with some of my closest girlfriends.  We all woke up Saturday morning and immediately started getting ready for our wine tour!  We rented a limo and the limo driver took us to two wineries, one boat cruise, and a place to stop and eat lunch.  Although it was a great time I was so ready to change into pj's and just lounge with all my girlfriends.  After much needed naps and more booze, we decided we wanted to go to Toby Keith's bar in St. Louis Park.  It was a pretty big bar and there was a live band playing.  It was crowded but us ladies made our way close to the stage to dance to a few good jams.  Saturday was such a great day.

First winery stop of the day!

Boat tour

Picture from the boat tour

On Sunday, a few of us decided to be super lazy and do absolutely nothing but watch Netflix until I needed to be taken to the airport to catch my flight back to Portland.  I didn't arrive to my hotel until about 9:45pm PST.  I unpacked everything, brushed my teeth, and fell asleep as soon as I closed my eyes.

It has been requested, those of us who are working onsite should work 7am-7pm this week.  Also, it has been requested that I come back the week after labor day for four more weeks and work Monday-Saturday 7am-7pm.  It is going to take a lot out of me but I'm going to try to plan a short weekend trip to Las Vegas in September sometime.  Due to the request of working onsite in Portland almost the entire month of September, I have decided on Labor Day weekend, I will drive to WI and drop off Pip with my mom until I'm able to be home to take care of her.  She needs more attention than what she is given right now from people coming to my apartment and "checking in" on her for a quick 10 minutes.  Pip is the kind of cat that needs a lot of attention and I believe taking her to live with my mom for a month or two will be the best option for her.

Since I will be traveling to WI this weekend, I get to see this cute face (see below) while I'm there and I CANNOT WAIT!  I miss my niece/god-daughter very, very much.  I can't wait to give her tons and tons of kisses!

Her smiles are so contagious :)