Snow in Denver

I traveled to Denver for work. Yesterday, I had a window seat on the plane and had a great view of meteor Crater, with the San Francisco Peaks in the background as I flew over northern Arizona. 

This morning, I woke up to see fresh snow in the hotel parking lot. Good thing I will be indoors all day!

Let's go to Vegas!

 This morning, my husband said, "Let's go to Vegas!" 

This is what he meant....

Drive-past the strip ...

Pick up Jeep parts ...

Spend the night in Laughlin before driving home.

Sacramento

 I had to go to Eureka CA for a work trip. Leaving Phoenix, my flight was delayed, which caused me to miss my connection to Eureka. I was scheduled to present at a training at 9 am the following morning, so I was having some major anxiety. I was put on standby for the only other flight of the day, arriving around 11 pm. Luckily, I got the last seat on the plane. 

Because I had thought I would be arriving late afternoon, I planned to take a taxi or uber from the airport to the hotel. Once my flight was delayed, I wasn't sure if I would even make it, so I figured it would make ground transportation arrangements if/when I arrived.

That standby flight was then delayed and we arrived in Eureka around midnight - and I was told there are no cabs or ubers this late. Once I got my luggage (needed to be loaded into the the plane because there wasn't room for my carryon) I went outside. There was a pre-paid van that was full and about to leave that had pity on me and said they could take me to my hotel, but I would have to be the last stop. I didn't have any other choice.

I arrived at my hotel at 2:30 am (luckily they didn't cancel my reservation) and sent a quick text to my colleagues that I was meeting in the morning, letting them know I arrived and would meet them at 7 am as planned to drive to the training site. So, I only got a few hours of sleep before having to get ready in the morning.

The training went well, and during a morning break, I logged in to my airline account to check in for my return flight that afternoon. I got a notice that my flight home was cancelled! I called the airline, to learn that they had no record of my arriving as a standby passenger and since I was "still in Sacramento", they cancelled my flights home. 

Great! More anxiety! I semi-convinced them that I was in fact in Eureka and they "sort of" reinstated my first flight, but I would be required to check in in-person at the Eureka airport. Luckily, the flight wasn't full and I made it on the flight to Sacramento and they checked me into my connecting flight too. Unfortunately my seat assignments were gone and I got middle seats for both flights. 

Here's a picture of me looking frazzled in the Sacramento airport with what I called "spider bunny" but is apparently named Leap.

Austin

 I traveled to Austin for a work trip, but I didn't get much of a chance (outside of dinner) to do much sightseeing outside of work. Here is a picture from my hotel.

And another from the airplane as I departed.

Work trip to Denver

I headed to Denver today for a quick work trip. On the approach into Denver, I got a nice view of the snow covered Rockies from the plane