We accepted a "bump" from our overbooked DEN-SEA flight. UA has compensated us with travel credits ($400 each), $15 each in food vouchers, and overnight accommodation at the quite nice Renaissance Denver Hotel.
We found our way to the shuttle bus and only had to wait about 15 minutes. From there it's 17 miles and about a 25-minute drive. Since tonight's flight was already delayed by about a half hour, the thought of climbing into bed now, at the 24-hour mark since we awakened in Rome, is very inviting, compared to arriving in SEA 2 1/2 hours later.
Updated next morning... We enjoyed a comfortable night's sleep, and we're on our way to breakfast in the restaurant. This is actually quite a lovely hotel and one of the nicest hotels we've stayed in on an airline "bump."
It's off to the airport on the 8:30 a.m. shuttle. Last night's very nice gate agent snagged the last seat in F for Kathy (Happy Valentine's Day) and Brian has an exit row seat on the aisle in the 757. If all goes as planned, we'll be driving up the I-5 Express Lanes toward home by mid-day.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
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