I've Lost My Key...

I left Wednesday, November 16 on another adventure! This adventure started out with me already behind schedule and not because of me this time. My flight was delayed by a little more than an hour. I sat down to wait and started playing with my new camera!!! Its a GREAT camera and I love it so much! Its a Canon Rebel 3Ti. Here is my first picture, a self portrait.

 Here's all my stuff spread out in the airport as I tried to learn how my camera functioned, since I hadn't touched it since I bought it. Notice the carry-on suitcase and computer bag, yep, that's all I brought for ELEVEN days. I packed GOOD!

So originally I should have landed at JFK at 11pm but it was after midnight New York time. I had to pick up my rental car and drive almost two hours south into New Jersey. Adding to the delay, the plane was PACKED and my carry-on had to be checked at the gate, but did they return it at the gate, nope! I had to retrieve it from baggage claim. You'd think with my bag being one of the last ones added to cargo, it should be one of the first on the carousel, nope I waited and waited and waited... it got later and later and later. Then there it was my bumblebee, black bag with a yellow stripe. I made my way to the car rental and climbed into my supposedly non-smoking suv and it most DEFINITELY had been smoked in. I walked back into the rental place and the girl was super nice and put me in a different one that smelled MUCH better. I ended up with this Jeep Laredo.

FINALLY, I was on the road to Jersey. So now its 3am, I check into my hotel and get back in my car and I can't find the key! I had the key chain and there were two tiny keys on it but neither fit, I was so desperate I tried to fit them together into the ignition. That didn't work, nothing worked and I was freaking out and tired. I called the rental place and after pushing buttons for-e-ver, I finally got a person and explained the very stupid sounding situation, "umm...which one is the key?" He transferred me to someone else, who the minute I said "the keys won't fit" knew EXACTLY what was wrong and a minute later I had the car started, obviously he had received this call before. The "key" was actually the end of the clicker and didn't look like a key at all. So I didn't feel so dumb. Man, was I wiped out and crawled into bed with my alarm set for 7am, did I mention I love traveling and I define travel as cramming more than you can possibly do into a limited amount of time :) And this was just the beginning!