Ok, the last day of my trip to Spain became more of an adventure than it needed to be but not because of anything much from Spain, but what had happened at home.
I had a flight scheduled to take off at 1:55pm Spain time and that meant I was to take the 10am shuttle van from the hotel to the airport because that would only cost me 8Eu rather than the 35 or so it would be for a taxi. I woke up early and decided to eat breakfast at the hotel to kill some time before getting fully packed and heading to the lobby to check out. That was quick but they apparently didn't have a van ready for me for some reason so the hotel paid a cab to drive me to the airport. The driver was a nice guy and I tipped him a couple Eu because I felt generous. Madrid airport apparently separates the US international flights from the rest of the international flights but they won't let you to the gate areas until around an hour before departure. Check in and all that was fairly simple but I had to wander around the airport for a while to kill time before I could get to my gate. For whatever unknown reason though the plane took off at least 45 minutes late even though we started boarding on time. This was the single most disorganized boarding process I've ever seen. It was terrible. So with the late departure the basically uneventful flight arrived in Boston over an hour and a half late. I was seated next to one of the flight attendant's son.
When I got home I got a ride to my house by way of Flightline and found that the snowstorm on Saturday had knocked power out all over the place including my house. It had been out of power since Saturday and it was freezing when I finally got home (aside from being dark and having no water). I unpacked a bit and eventually tried to get to sleep but it was just too cold so I ended up driving to my brother's house to spend the night. And I had to do that all the way until Thursday when we finally got power back. The outage set me back a lot on getting things sorted out. So that is why this post was late. Anyway, I enjoyed Spain a lot. I wasn't sure going into it, especially with the lack of prep on my part but things sorted out well and I had a lot of fun. Aside from the bad weather day things were good.
