Crisis Averted and YAY for Tom!

So it 9:30 Atlanta Time and I'm sitting in the airport waiting on my 10:40 p.m. flight to Amsterdam! The drama of the trip so far has been minimal but still frustrating all the same. As I was boarding the plane to Atlanta from DFW they tell that there is NO more room on the plane for carry on luggage and I have to check it and they will send it on to my final destination. Well to be honest I wasn't trusting the airline with mine $500.00 camera in my carry on plus all my meds were in my carry on. So I like the nice person I am held up the boarding line while I "unpacked" all the things I didn't want being checked. And then I asked the check person if they would send my luggage to Atlanta not to Cardiff so I could have my bag back. Well little did I know what I was asking. Because I asked this after I arrived in Atlanta I had to un board the plane go all the way to baggage claim and then go back thru security and then find where my gate was! Which wasn't as big a deal as I thought it was going to be. Atlanta is one of the busiest airport in the country and trust me you can tell. I think I got lucky because its so late there wasn't very many people trying to go thru security so it only took like 10 minutes! The longest part of the check in process was the tram ride to and from the terminal to baggage claim. This airport is laid out weird! Thankfully the man that sat next to me on the plane from DFW lives in Atlanta so he's flown in and out of this airport lots of times and he showed me everywhere I needed to go all the way back to security then he left and went home. Which I thought was very nice of him ! I love how God put people in our paths just when we need them. I'm sure I could have figured it all out but it was much easier with his help and left me with a lot of extra time I may not have had had I tried to find all that stuff on my own! I really hope I don't have that issue this time, but I'm on a bigger plane and I have an earlier load zone than I did before which will allow me to get my bag in first! hahahaha.
Well I think that may be all for now! I may post while I'm in the air or I may wait until tomorrow morning when I land in Amsterdam!
Lots of Love
Beth