A Wedding and a Vacation part 1

Abram's Grandpa Curtis, 80 yrs, got married Saturday. How could we miss that? We bought decent tickets to Florida a few weeks back and greatly anticipated the get away. The trip started with chaos. I was dog tired Wednesday night and after packing and cleaning I went to bed around 11. Abram said he would stay up all night since we were getting up at 4 to leave by 530 anyway. I set the alarm regardless. About 1am I heard him fiddling with the alarm and I commented to him not to mess it up. next thing I knew Abram shot up in bed and looked at the clock. It was 630 am. We live an hour from the airport and our plane left at 8. After blinking and questioning what to do I just blurted "Lets GO!" We threw clothes on, and what things were left out of the bags... b/c we planned on showers that morning, and threw everything and ourselves in the car. Poor Clive was completely confused and thought we were insane - mainly b/c he got no food!! 636 we were on the road. Abram flew as fast he could safely and I called the airline. the next flight out was 330 that afternoon. We couldn't have that. We made a plan. It takes about a half hour to park your car and get to the terminal. impossible. I had checked us in on line the day before and I gave Abram his boarding pass. He dropped me at the terminal with all of our things at 730, I checked our baggage and went thru security. 20 till 8. Abram drove out to the long-term parking and grabbed the shuttle back. He called while on it. He said he was torn between just running for it and taking the shuttle, and there he sat, at the mercy of the shuttle driver. Meanwhile I stood at the gate convincing them that my husband would be there any second. 10 till 8 and Abram calls saying he's running toward security now. the Gate keeper makes the announcement "Final boarding call for Airtran flight 389 to Tampa, Florida, departing at gate C2" the man asks me if I'd like to board the plane. Not till my husband gets here. I see Abram on the other side of security and I call him to let him know the gate is right around the corner. Abram is ALWAYS asked to step aside and strip down and frisked. Plus he had his laptop, which you have to take out, and all his camera equipment. (yes, I should have taken that) wonder of wonders, he walked thru without taking any equipment out of the pelican case and without being searched. meanwhile an airline worker asked what he looked like and took off after him. 8 o'clock, they come around the corner the man at the gate chuckles and tells us its our lucky day, we board the plane, sit down and laugh and silently appologize to all the people on the plane who got up on time that morning and got to the airport like they should have. Arrive in Tampa at 1030 as scheduled, take in a deep breath of the warm Florida air, get some coffee in hand, warmly greeted by Uncle Tim, an hour drive to his house, hugs and greetings to the Florida cousins, the New Hampshire cousins and then... a shower please!!!