Utah Day 1 – Snowing

So we fly into Cincinnati and get off the plane for a bit.  Marlo immediately asks the person at the gate how much is it to upgrade to first class.  It was $100.  The lady barely finished the sentence and Marlo smacked down her credit card and declared that we were in.  Now, first class is a beautiful thing.    Especially if you drink and you don’t have to drive when you get to wherever you are going…  Well I am not drinking AND we had to drive an hour to our condo.  Marlo on the other hand go the very most out of first class.  She had a beer on the ground and had wine the rest of the way to Utah…  She was actually in pretty good shape when we got there.  We had to wait for out ski bags in the special baggage area.  While I waited for the bags, Marlo went to look for the Hertz desk.  It turns out that the Hertz desk is across the street from baggage claim…  now how much sense does that make???  You can take an elevator up walk over and then back down, but nahhhhh…  We wait for our ski stuff and chat with some people that were also in first class. It turns out that they rode for free because the woman works for the airline… nice.  They had two older kids in tow.  Her grand kids…  She did not look that old…  to me… hmmm, what does that tell you.???  So we get our stuff and I throw my ski bag over my shoulder and out of the way and Marlo tosses her snowboard across her rolley bag.  Well she did not actually take anyone completely out, but there were some people making some quick moves to make the wide path.  It was actually pretty funny.  Remember this is midnight in Utah.  So instead of going up over down and around, Marlo decides to go … through….  Through the baggage claim across 4 lanes of traffic and into the Hertz office located conveniently across the street.  All went just fine until we went to cross the first street.  There was a young woman standing on the sidewalk and Marlo tapped her on the shoulder and she took one step to the left to avoid being run over.  It was all good.  One woman was laughing.  Well this one guy starts to go off on Marlo.  I have to admit, I was a little scared for him…  it happened so  fast.  He snaps at her that she has to stop right now and this can’t continue and she is a horrible person and she almost hit this girls, etc, etc…  well, Marlo whips around and gives it right back to him.  He was quiet after that, but we were long gone too…  we met the same people from first class over at Hertz.  Marlo had a coupon for Hertz for a free upgrade.  Cool beans!  Did I mention that is was snowing… a lot when we landed???  Well yea there was about 6 inches on the ground.  I mentioned the we should upgrade to something with four wheel drive.  Marlo thought that was a pretty good idea, but it was going to cost more than the free upgrade and balked at it… twice.  I pushed the issue.  We got a four wheel drive, but not a big one.  We ended up with a Subaru Empreza.  A capable car, but wimpy.  Especially our here in cowboy country.  They have some BIG trucks out here.  There were some that could have run us over and never stopped.

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