.. roman adventure day one = fail ..

{ our euros }

so as you are aware, or if you weren't, cody and i had planned a trip this month to rome italy. we took days off work, had a garage sale to earn some extra bucks and planned. we had decided, since we fly standby, that we would try and leave the night before our flight to Rome from New York to fly to new york with cody's parent and make a day out of it. I went to work half day that day, came home to do laundry, pack, prep jet's stuff for the trip and do any last minute errands or what nots that needed to be wrapped up. this particular day was also my youngest brothers birthday, not just any birthday his 18th. so we had some celebrating to do. after all this packing, cleaning and errand running we went out to dinner to celebrate. it was fun, we just went to outback with him and had dinner laughed a bunch and they topped it off with a sundae all for him.



{the birthday boy with his sundae}

after all this fun and excitement, it was time for us to prep. we did our last minute stuff, took jet on a ride and said our goodbyes. and we were off to the airport. i will admit i cried for a good 15 minutes about leaving jet home with my brother, not cause i didn't think he would be alright but just cause well he is my kid and sometimes leaving him behind just sucks. we arrived at the salt lake airport around 10pm. the flight left at 11:55. we found cody's parents and got comfy and sat down and chatted. now with stand by you can only get on the plane if there is an empty seat, so asking for 4 empty ones is kind of a stretch i admit. but we have done it before so it couldn't be too hard. so we waited and chatted and waited. they started loading the flight and people were swarming (another thing i don't understand. why are people so anxious to hurry up and sit on the plane? they will wait for you to get on, you don't have to be in someone else's personal bubble in line just to hurry up and sit.) and we just sat. after they loaded the flight there were a few seats, but as per requirement we have to wait for them to do a final boarding call and wait the necessary 5 minutes for the person to show up. and wouldn't you know it they all showed. so us going to new york for the day was a no go. cody's parents left us for their comfy bed and we attempted to get on another flight to atlanta that was leaving at 12:30. again the process only to find out there was only 1 seat, and since we are a party of 2 that wasn't happening. so we called it a night. we found a cheap hotel near the airport, kind of reminded me of the shining a little, and cozied in for the night. we decided to attempt again the next morning at 8:30 to get to new york again.