Wednesday - Peter

Welcome to our blog! It may be named Pizza Hut, and you may have arrived here by typing guntherliz.blogspot.com , but most assuredly this blog will be about our travels. Especially to Egypt.

Bart and I said goodbye to Mom at the Lindberg and then Bart drove me to Humphrey. Stacie and I met at the *Humphrey* terminal. She was mad at me for telling her it was Lindberg, she and Gary had to take the light rail over with all her stuff. I got my stuff out of the car (except our lunches), and we sat in the airport for a while. Eventually Gary left (Stacie was worried he wouldn't find his car). We got in line to check our bags.

My bag weighed 56 lbs, 6 lbs too many, Stacie's was 9 lbs over. We tried to shuffle clothes around and cram more into our carryons, I took out a burlap bag I had stuffed with computer cords, but I couldn't find anything else heavy or easy to remove. That's when I decided that all I had to do was make it appear as though my bag was 50 pounds.  I set the burlap bag asside and tossed my bag on the scale, making sure to a definite minority of the bag to rest on the weightplateless side of the desks opposite us.  11 lbs under, big surprise (to the agent)!  I threw the burlap bag back in, remarking, "This bag can't possibly weigh more than 4 lbs!" and she tagged it as a bag of proper weight.  Stacie, one way or another, did the same and we escaped without any extra charges ($30 per bag!).

The flights were like any, I wanted to sleep but to no avail: Stacie wouldn't let me.  We talked a lot on the flight to Atlanta, and looked out the window as well.  Gourmet Pretzels, Coke.

Lunch in Atlanta Airport (They have a smoking salon!! We didn't go in)  Ate at Atlanta Bread Company (Spin off of Panera Bread or original?  My generation hopes originality has not disappeared yet). ATL to DCA we had an isle seat this time. Gourmet pretzels, apple juice (full can!).

Arrived in DC, met Carol my step-mom, got our bags, talked about Asa and Ani some.  My bag was heavy and the car was FAR AWAY, but it was ok, I toughed it out like a champ (actually I complained the whole way).