A not so ordinary trip to Dallas, TX

This past week, Tim Reedy (who is our PT Media Producer) and I had the opprotunity to attend a Worship/Facilities Conference in Dallas, TX. We attended to glean information about the technological aspects of worship and the design of church facilities. Only knowing Tim from interactions on Sunday mornings, I was also interested in getting to know him and share the conference experience with him. Who knew we'd find ourselves in so many different situations in a 4-day span?

What started out to be a routine flight to Charlotte, ended like the mall parking lot on Black Friday. Apparently, Charlotte had experienced bad weather all day, necessitating numerous flight delays, if not cancellations. Since all of the gates were occupied when our flight arrived we sat on the tarmac, very much like when you're in a parking lot having seen someone about to pull out of their parking space that's so close to the mall entrance that you decide it's worth taking the time to wait for the person to pull out... Yeah, that was us, except in an airplane. After 15 minutes with no gates opening up, we were rerouted to the long-term parking lot - at least that's what it seemed like. There were half a dozen planes just parked in the far corner of the tarmac, so remote that we didn't even have a gate, climbed off the plane and walked along the tarmac to the terminal. By this point our 30 minute layover to catch our connecting flight to Dallas had been reduced to 5 minutes. Being a NASCAR fan, I knew Charlotte was known for racing, little did I know how it would affect Tim and me in what would happen next...