Our Trip Here!

Alright, I know this is a little out of order since I posted from the convention first, but it's a story worth telling, even if it's late.  lol.

So in preperation for Photoshop World Las Vegas we commuted 4 hours to drop off our 2 year old daughter, Madeline (see pics at http://www.daisymaephotography.com/), at her grandma's.  We decided to pull into a Wendys's for frosties, which with a 2 year old, means getting out and eating them inside or else!  We pull into a parking spot next to a car with 3 or 4 guys in it.  No big deal, didn't think anything of it.  I get out of the car and get my daghter out.  We cross the parking lot and as quick as we step up on the sidewalk, the guys jump out of their car with guns and rob an ATM as it's being filled by Brinks!  Can you believe it!!!  I grabbed my daughter and bolted inside Wendy's as quickly as possible and next thing I know, the guys are peeling off up the road.  CRRRRRAAAAAZZZZYYYYYY.

Now, THANK GOD that everyone was alright and nobody got hurt, but this couldn't have happened at a worse time.  We had been away from our daughter for more then 1 night, and we were preparing for a 5 days seperation because of Photoshop World in Vegas.  Regardless though, my wife and I were strong and just gave lots of extra hugs and kisses before our goodbye.  It's amazing how things like this can really make you realize what is important in life. 

After this, we head home to finish packing for our trip.  When we get there, we go to pre-board our flight online, only to find out it was cancelled!!  It's 11pm and our flight was supposed to be at 7am the next day, and they just decided to cancel it!  What else could go wrong.  We tried calling Frontier and spent 2 hours on the phone, only to be told we needed to talk to the ticket counter to get help.  So we loaded up and left for the airport.  Needless to say, we had absolutely no sleep in the airport.  We get to the Frontier counter and have to stand there until 5am.  The lady there was helpful though, and was able to get us a United Airlines Flight that met up with our original flight at our layover in Denver.  Great News!!  Or so we thought. 

After our flights, we go to get our bags and low and behhold, they didn't make the new flight!  Yep, now we are in Vegas with no clothes.  At this point we are wondering if someone was trying to tell us something, but we made the best of it.  We ended up getting our bags around 10pm that night and ever since, everything has been going right. 

So, moral of the story, when things just seem like they are working against you, think about the story you just read.  If I can get through an armed robbery at 10 feet, a cancelled flight and lost luggage, all within 18 hours, then you can get through anything that life throws at you!

Thanks for reading.  Again, this is me blogging live from Photoshop World!  It's tons of fun and we are meeting tons of photographers!

-Eric
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