This Christmas was so much fun! I got a whoppin 2 whole weeks off of work and enjoyed every second of it. Christmas day was spent with the Stevens Family and then we left the day after to spend time with the Washburn Family in IL. I did so many fun things I cannot begin to list them all. I especially enjoyed the time with family members who I don't usually see from all over the US from NY to UT.It was all fun and games until Jan. 1 when we tried to fly out of Chicago. We spent 7 hours delayed in the airport. We were finally able to take off late that night, but when we arrived in Seattle, my luggage was missing. Apparently our luggage had arrived 3 hours earlier than our flight, but we could only find one suitcase. The next day a creepy sounding guy calls and informs me that he has my suitcase and he dropped it back off at the airport but he still has some items from my suitcase at his house and that I would have to drive to his house if I wanted them back. He was holding one shoe, a board game, and my long lost journal (It had been lost and I actually had just found it inside this particular suitcase where it had been sitting in storage.) hostage. So, I am very confused and quite frankly creeped out by this stranger who somehow picked up the wrong bag, sifted through it, and failed to keep all of my belongings inside it. So, I call Dave and he insists on driving to this house to pick up my belongings despite my pleas and warnings that he could be a psycho killer. However, when he shows up at the given address it turns out my suitcase thief was some poor, super old man who's a bit nutty. He and his seemingly 100 yr old wife were very confused but, thankfully, harmless. As Dave is leaving the old man exclaims "I will never fly again- they gave me the wrong bag, there were too many people, and the seats were too close together!" lol AMEN to that!
