Adventures of an AFWingMom: It's A Wrap

The Price Is Right Adventure....conclusion.

After the taping of The Price Is Right we took one last look at our wonderful camping spot.

It sure looked different in the daylight.

And made sure to get a shot of a palm tree lined street before heading back to the hotel.

We dropped off our t-shirts and other souvenirs' that we bought from the micro-mini gift shop and headed off for some much needed nourishment. Our parents had found a fabulous place called Rodeo Mexican Grill. It was pretty much super awesome and they have very generous dinner portions at great prices.

Now that our bellies were full we headed back to our hotel where we all crashed. To say we were tired would be a grand understatement. We were exhausted and ready for a great night's sleep.

We woke up the next morning refreshed and revived and ready to head back home to Dallas. On the flight from LAX to ELP we were by ourselves, no one on the rows around us. That's just fine and dandy with us although we really enjoy meeting new people. Carson was our flight attendant on our flights home. He is based out of Houston. We were taking a look around the plane and a lady a few rows back had taken her shoes off and put her funky shoeless feet in between the seats. Anyone else think feet are nasty? I do.

We told Carson that it was our parents' 40th wedding anniversary and he said they would make an announcement when we started our descent into Dallas. We thought that was pretty cool.

Also on the way we had to deal with hacking/coughing man. It seriously sounded like he was trying to dislodge a small cow or something from his left lung. Another lady was eating something on a paper plate. Seriously. When we landed in ELP we were allowed to change seats after everyone that was getting off had gotten off. The paper plate lady wanted to move. She then (with the help of an attendant) moved one row up. That's right, ONE ROW! And whatever she was eating apparently some of it was left behind in her previous seat because the attendant was stuck cleaning it up. GROSS! Clean up your own mess paper plate lady!!

Gina was in line for the bathroom during our brief layover. She is waiting patiently in line as she normally does. An older, shorter gentleman pushes her out of the way to get in line ahead of her. Uh, no you didn't! But yeah, he did. Melinda (another flight attendant) saw this and said to Carson, "This lady (pointing to Gina) was in line for the bathroom first" and then says to Gina, "You go stand up there" and helps her get up to the bathroom. Not that Gina is helpless or couldn't stand up for herself. She is patient after all but it was cool that they didn't allow cutting in line.

The passengers from El Paso were now beginning to board. A man stopped by our row and said, "Anyone sitting here?" We said, "No." He said, "No one's sitting here?" We said, "You are!" Sheesh, sit down already.

So he sits down and gets out his iPod and it's playing the soundtrack fro Chicago. It is on song 14 of 18. He's also in the seat and leaning towards Gina like he's conversing with her or something. Only he's not. Just kind of in her space for the whole trip.

He's also reading OTC Growth Stock Watch or something like that. Anyway, he's listening to his iPod and every now and then will make these weird moaning noises. Yeah, weird right? We're not sure what that's all about. He also was breathing weird. Like every 5th breath he would blow out harder. We don't know what was weirder, him doing that or us noticing. It was hard to keep or composure.

Because we are really friendly and inquisitive Texans we did find out that his name was Roger and he was a retired physician who did workman's comp reviews. He also was now listening to Gershwin Rhapsody Blue 1 of 7.

As we were preparing for our descent Carson announced that our Mom and Dad were celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary. Everyone clapped our parents looked really happy. It was pretty cool, see?

All in all our TPIR adventure was really totally awesome and we just love watching (and re-watching) the tape of our show and reliving the fun and the memories.