Trip to Coeur D'Alene

This may be boring as there are no pictures so feel free to skip it if you like, I promise I won't get offended. So yesterday I had to go to Coeur D'Alene for a meeting so I got up at 3:45 in the morning so I could get ready and get my house cleaned before I left. I got to the airport at about 5:00 for my 6:00 am flight. I find that if I have to travel it is really kind of fun to not have to pack a suitcase cause that whole checking in and waiting for baggage thing is annoying. Anyway since I didn't have any luggage cause I was only staying for the day I was able to head right over to security. I still have to wear an ankle brace to support my ankle so I was a little worried that I would set off the alarm, but I didn't I was pretty happy about that. Oh I forgot the best part of this whole early morning flight thing was that Mom and Dad had to go to meeting too so they were there with me and I had someone to harass. :) Anyway so I flew to Boise, which wasn't bad because I got to switch seats and not have anyone sitting by me. I had a two hour layover in Boise before flying to Spokane so Mom, Dad, and I went over and found seats to chill in. I was having a great morning, because I had made it through my whole flight without getting sick, wich for me is good because I get motion sickness really easy, or so I thought. As we got over to where we were going to sit I suddenly did not feel well at all and had to go buy a coke to settle my stomach. Mom immediatly settled into reading her book and Dad and I joked around before he took a nap. I spent the time playing around on the internet for a while, yea for free wi-fi, and then I also pulled out my book and read. The fun part was that we were sitting by the elevator so they kept bringing people past in wheelchairs and this one person was rolled by with a big bag on their laps and dad leans over and asks "Why is it that everytime you see someone being pushed in a wheelchair do they have a big bag on their laps." We laughed and then everytime anyone else in a wheelchair went past dad muttered about bags under his breath. Then as we continued to sit there this guy who worked for the airport walked past and dad says to me "uh-oh here comes the quax guy." I look up from my book to see this guy walking past with a big QX on the back of his vest. Then Dad says to me "Do you know what he does?" So curious as I was I said yea and dad says "He quax around the airport." I of course laugh for a while and then had to tell mom the whole story when she got back from the bathroom. Anyway after the fun layover we finally get on our plane to Spokane. Nothing real fun on that ride cause it was actually overbooked. Mom and Dad and I did talk about missing our meetings and taking the ticket that you can use to go anywhere and going to Hawaii instead, but then decided that we should go to the meetings. When we landed in Spokane we got Mom and Dad's bags and then went to get our rental cars. The line for my car was way long while there was no one at the place Dad got his car so they got theirs and then just waited for me. I finally got the keys to my sweet ride for the day, THE SILVER BULLET aka the silver PT Cruiser. So we go out to get our cars and the car parked next to mine is so close that I can't get in the driver seat and so I wait patiently for the people sitting in that car to pull out and I wait and wait and then finally I went around to the front of my car and waited so they could see that I was waiting on them and they finally pull out. As I get into my car and start to drive over to where Mom and Dad's car was supposed to be parked I see mom waving me over so I head over there and she tells me to just park cause Dad had to go in and get a new car cause their stunk really bad like cigarette smoke. So I pull into an empty spot next to them. So mom and I are sitting their wating and this old guy comes walking up to the car, he works for the rental agency that Mom and Dad went through, so I roll down my window and he tells me that the car I am in is not one of their cars so I start to explain. I say to him that "I am waiting for my parents because they rented the car next to me but needed a different one because there is something wrong with that one." Halfway through my explaination this guy turns around and walks away. I turned to mom and we both just look at each other with that WHAT THE look and then we chuckled about it. Shortly therafter Dad shows up with their new car, which still smells like cigarette smoke, just not as bad. So about an hour after landing we are finally able to leave. But since we have several hours before my meeting starts and Mom and Dad can check into their hotel we decide to go the Post Falls Outlets. Sweet idea right? Wrong. About 3/4 of the stores were empty and the ones that were open weren't that impressive, but Mom and I did get some new shoes so it worked out. So since there wasn't really anything else to do we decided to drive around Coeur D'Alene and since driving two cars around was silly we went to where my meeting was and dropped my car off then we went and Mom and Dad showed me Lake Coeur D'Alene which is huge and really cool. Then I went to my meeting which took almost 4 hours and then I went to Post Falls to talk to Mom and Dad before heading back to the Airport to catch my 6:25 flight to Boise. I was supposed to get into Boise with about 30 minutes to spare to catch my flight to Idaho Falls so I was really worried that we would be late and I would miss my flight but fortunately for me my flight to Idaho Falls was running about 15 minutes late. So I got to Idaho Falls at about 10:00 and then drove home with the A/C cranked and the Radio blaring to keep me awake.