We arrived in Raleigh this evening but our bags did not. Our flight from Seattle was delayed considerably and by the time we made it to Chicago Midway our brief layover was whittled down to nothing. We literally had time to check the departure board for our gate and walk over to join our boarding line.
Though we just made it on our Raleigh-bound flight, we wound up waiting with our plane at the gate as the crew waited for additional luggage to be loaded. We of course thought our luggage from our late-arriving Seattle flight would be loaded during this 40 minute window but apparently not. Several passengers from Seattle were disappointed to arrive in Raleigh with no bags.
The funny thing is that I remarked to our flight attendant that there was little chance our bags would make this flight. “Hey, we’re Southwest,” he responded. I liked his confidence but it was quite misplaced, to say the least!
I’ve got a bunch to write about our visit to Orcas but I’m sapped from a day’s worth of travel and a poor night of sleep in our Seattle hotel last night. Hopefully I can find time tomorrow to write more about our trip.
It’s good not to be traveling anymore but sad that we had to leave Orcas!