Back at Home

Well. The amazing trip of my life has come to a screeching halt as I am back at home and back at work today. I arrived back late last night after several scares. First, after having my flight from Auckland- LA delayed, I missed my flight from LA- Atlanta at 11:40 AM. Looking at the board, there were 2 more flights to Atlanta. They were at 1:40 and 2:40. I was told to pick up the black phone to get my ticket reissued. I was told that both flights were completely oversold. Having travelled for 24 hours at this point, that was not an acceptable answer. After getting somewhat irate and getting absolutely nowhere, I hung up with a feeling of despair. The next flight was at 10:30 PM and I was in no mood to wait in the airport 9 hours. Than the lady from the heavens stepped in to help. She was very understanding of my situation and offered to put me on the standby list with a number one priority. Sure enough, I than became cleared for the flight and was on. What a relief. But that act by her was reminiscent of the entire trip. Everything just went smoothly and so many people made it great.

Than on the ride back home from the airport, we were on I75 North heading home when a car trying to switch lanes failed to recognize the truck in the lane next to him and ran smack into the side of the truck smashing his car to pieces. The pieces of the car came flying in our direction. Elliott evaded the pieces, floored the gas as we headed off safely.

So, this last picture is the 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road. All of my pictures should be up on the web by Wednesday. I will put the link on here for all to see. It's been fun.