You Never Know

You really never do know what surprise is right around the corner.  You can plan and prepare, but life has it's way of making you laugh, or scratch your head, due to the unexpected.

I think part of "Becoming A Southerner,"  is visiting home from time to time.  Our first trip north was a success, but it took a lot of planning and cooperation from family to make it work.  Leaving at 4 am Friday morning we planned on arriving home around 1 am Monday morning in enough time for me to get some sleep before going to work. 

Traveling a total of 1,400 miles in three days, we had four main destinations and it was a tight schedule.  We were pretty much right on schedule as we arrived in the parking lot of our condo at 1:15 am. this morning. We were both exhausted as we piled everything from the car onto a luggage cart and pushed it into the elevator to get to the second floor.

It was at that point of being at our door at 1:30 am that we had the surprise of our trip.  There's a lock on our door and you press a couple numbers that unlock the door, but it did not open. Several times we tried and failed.(the only problem we had in three months is when I forgot the numbers)  My wife called the landlord(who is in Connecticut) and somehow she was awake at that hour and she was able to unlock the door through some kind of technology.(no clue and it didn't matter and I don't care)

If we weren't able to reach her what could we have done? Get a hotel room across the street? I dreaded the thought of putting everything back in the van and then unloading it into a hotel room so I could use the van.

The old saying is, "when life throws you a lemon, make lemonade," but at that point we were not thirsty-we just needed to sleep.