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by Dustin | Nov 13th, 2007 - 11:38 pm | Categories: Family Vacations, Romantic Getaways
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Crowds at Mount Rushmore

I’m a little nervous. One of my wife’s friends from an online writing club is coming out to visit the Black Hills on Friday. I haven’t met this one yet, but based on the maniacal giggling coming from my wife while she ‘plays with her nerds’ (her words) while typing madly on her computer, it’s bound to be an interesting weekend.

She’s flying out of New Orleans, connecting in Denver, and will land at Rapid City Regional Airport around 11 a.m. It sounds like her round-trip ticket on United Airlines, with travel insurance and taxes, rung up at about $400. Considering she booked the whole thing only four days in advance, that seems pretty good to me.

In fact, she tells my wife that my recent post about Frontier Airlines’ expansion of service in Rapid City helped convince her to book the trip (it turns out that United had the better deal this time). I’m not sure I believe her, though. I have a feeling she’s trying to flatter me before she shows up and whisks my wife away to draft evil plots and new characters for their fiction club.

It sounds like they’re already plotting. Something about a character using a picture of Mount Rushmore to request a mountain sculpture of his own (“Uh, is this thing to scale?”). Honestly, who hasn’t wanted a megalithic sculpture of themselves?

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7 Comments

Eq4bits | Nov 13th, 2007 - 11:44 pm

Be afraid… be very afraid!
And what’s this? Flattery? Me? I’d never stoop to flattery…….

Eq4bits | Nov 13th, 2007 - 11:48 pm

Oh, and I’m from Mississippi… NOLA is just the cheapest (and scariest) and closest airport to fly out of.

Janalori | Nov 14th, 2007 - 07:00 am

Muahahahaha. Just wait, Dustin. Someday we’ll all descend on you…

Dustin | Nov 14th, 2007 - 04:11 pm

A little scary. But I’m happy to have our first house guest. I was a little worried that we weren’t very interesting or smelled funny or something…

Eq4bits | Nov 14th, 2007 - 05:07 pm

Well that remains to be seen… ummmmm smelled. ;p~

Janalori | Nov 14th, 2007 - 09:12 pm

LInds smells of mothballs.

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