Flordia Vacation Final Day

No pictures today just story.  We had to have the rental car back to Fort Lauderdale airport by 12 on Friday or pay for another day.  We didn't know exactly how long it would take so we got up early and packed everything up and loaded it in the car then went to breakfast at 7.  We ate pretty quickly and headed out.  It was Connie's turn to drive.  I programed Becky and off we went.  It took us 30 minutes to get out of  Orlando and on the Florida Turnpike.  Our plan was to get off the toll road as soon as we could.  About half way by the map but there wasn't nearly as much traffic and was only a 2 lane road vs. 5 lane so we took it all the way.  There had been an accident closer to Fort Lauderdale and that slowed us down some.  Becky was a god send getting to the car return.  She took us right there.  We arrived at 11:30 not much time to spare.  We got our boarding passes and checked our luggage and  got through security and went to find some lunch.  We ate a some sandwich place.  There were not a lot of choices but the food was good and filling.  We then went to our gate and sat down the arrival and departure board said our plane was coming in at a different place than our tickets said so I finally went up and asked and sure enough we needed to change gates.    No problems it was close.  We had an uneventful trip to St. Paul/ Minneapolis until after we landed then the pilot announced that the co pilot had been serving in the Middle East and that was his first commercial landing in 2 1/2 years.  He did a good job but I'm glad they waited until after to tell us.   Again we had a long hike to make the connection.  We had an hour but stopped to get some supper and it took longer than  we thought.  So again two old fat ladies were running through the airport to make our connection.  We actually had plenty of time after we got there but you never know.  Carol was picking us up at the airport and the plan was to stay at her house and come home Saturday morning but we were both ready to get home to our own beds.  So after Carol picked us up we came on home.  No problems and I really did sleep good in my own bed.   Neither of us are ready to travel again any time soon but we had a good time in spite of everything!