A short and EXPENSIVE trip to MN...

In March, we decided to take advantage of our free airline tickets through Adam's job with Southwest Airlines and go home to MN to visit our families. Southwest does not fly to MN, but has agreements with certain other airlines that do. Since we had to fly standby, we were a little nervous about making it (for some reason, everything seemed to be extremely full those days). We managed to get on a Sun Country Airlines flight to Minneapolis and arrived late in the evening. That night we drove down to Rochester, where we spent the following day visiting old co-workers, Adam's mom and Grandma, and met up with friends. The next day, we drove to the Twin Cities where we spent all day visiting with Rachel's family.


Rachel and Melanie

The next morning, we headed to the airport in hopes of getting on the morning flight back to SFO (we both had to work the following day). What were we thinking to go on this trip??? We sat around waiting to be called up to the podium for our boarding passes, but the plane left without us. We began to panic as all of our backup plans appeared full as well. Finally we resorted to the last possible action that would get us home in time: we purchased first class tickets on NWA (coach only $50 less). Not a cheap flight! The final price was (per person)...


Our expensive boarding passes