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Mama Mia – What A Day!
Not such a bad deal, right? However, my flight was scheduled to leave at 8 am, and I live 30 minutes away from PHL. Thanks to Dave’s shuttle service, I found myself at Philly’s Airport watching a spectacular sunrise as I sat at my assigned gate. Wolf Blitzer buzzed in the background relentlessly obsessing over hurricanes Gustav and Katrina.
According to Air Trans flight schedules, I had to fly south on order to go north. The journey to MSP had a pit stop in Atlanta, Georgia. The first leg of this flight was lightly filled and I had the luxury of a row of seats to myself. Atlanta to MSP was a whole different enchilada. A two hour layover in Atlanta was spent in a one sided ‘discussion’ of ethanol as a the alternative energy source. Yikes, lobbyists! On a GOP delegate packed flight, I had the honor of spending quality time with Mr. Marbles, a rather large and rather drugged cat. His owner had her own set of peculiarities, such as covering Mr. Marbles in her lap with her skirt, hoping the stewards would not notice. Oh, the joys of travel.
At long last, I reached Minneapolis-St.Paul and all was golden. A quick phone call to the hotel and a shuttle was dispatched to whisk me to my final destination. The concierge was careful to describe the shuttle van – White with Marriot written on the sides. Within 10 minutes a white van with Marriot written on the side pulls up and I am leaping out to greet him. “Airport Marriot?”, he asks. That would be me, I told him as I tossed him my suitcase and jumped in the shuttle. It turns out he meant another ‘airport’ Marriot than the one I meant. The good people at the wrong Marriot explained to me that they could not shuttle me to the Marriot where I had reservations, but would take me back to the airport shuttle pick up, where I could wait for the right shuttle. Yep, I could not make this stuff up, even if I tried.
Once at my hotel, I had to quickly request a cab to get to Minneapolis Convention Center to pick up my press credentials. Shuttle service does not start till Monday. Brilliant, just brilliant. On the way to the Convention center my cabbie, named Muhammed Ali, struck up a conversation with me regarding all the planning going on for the convention. He asked if I worked as a journalist, and I quickly informed him that I am a blogger. He began relating his encounter with journalists he recently transported between St. Paul and Minnesota. He mentioned their comments stating the DNC convention was a great party and they weren’t too pleased to have to cover the RNC. Interesting factoid, no?
It was a long day but well worth the opportunity to be part of history in the making. I would not change this day, no matter what may come.
Hi Skye, so happy you had a safe trip, glad you don’t have an allergy to “marbles” ! Looking forward to reading about your experiences..
Great pics Skye. Check out this blog from this man Joe Repya.
http://joerepya.typepad.com/eaglesnest/
he lives in the area and will be live blogging I think.
Great job Skye, and to anonymous, you read too much Alan Colmes!
Skye,
Glad you made it to MSP safe and sound. Looking forward to your reporting.
Paul
Hey Skye, glad to hear you made it to MN without any complications! Enjoy your time there, we’re all waiting for future reports
Glad to see you’re out on “patrol”.
You are a veteran seasoned blogger (a warrior in the propaganda war here at home) and you’ve handled everything like the street soldier that you are.
It’s a proud moment for all us Sheepdogs in the Philly area to have “one of our own” covering this historic occasion.
We all look forward to reading your reports and seeing your terrific photos.
When you come home we’re gonna have a great rally and picnic to celebrate our First Year Anniversary. The smell of burgers, hotdogs, and patriotism will fill the air.
We had a huge rally in West Chester on Saturday. Our spirits were skye high because of SARAH. I hope you get to see her and tell her how much of an inspiration she is to all of us in our Victory Movement.
Have a fun and productive week – we are very lucky to grateful that you are there for us.
I cant believe you got up in time.
Glad you made it safely. Looking forward to hearing all about your adventure.
I’m excited for you and know you’ll have a great time. I didn’t think it was worth going to before, but now that Palin has been picked I’m jealous that you will get to see and hear her speak.
All right, I have been away for a few days, and am coming back to the blogosphere to find this creepy anonymous person. Can someone explain to me what is it about these lefties that gives them such joy to be nasty? It’s amazing to me that they have nothing better to do but to be derogatory to people they don’t even know.
Is that a guy or a girl in the brown Hillary-style pant suit?