Michelle's Trip to Virginia: Day 5 - By Land & By Air (again)

My mom and I were planning on leaving for the airport a little later in the morning, but Wendy woke up feeling really sick and decided that she needed to see her doctor.  They were able to get her in that morning so after Gabe and Wendy left for the doctor we decided to start our long drive towards the Raleigh/Durham airport.
I wanted to drive a different way back to the airport then the way that we came so that we could see different thing.  We started out that way, but then the GPS offered us a shorter route and my mom accepted that route so it put us back on the same road we came in on.  Oh well, it wasn't a bad drive.
We stopped at a rest stop just over the boarder into North Carolina.  After using the bathrooms we went into the visitors center and looked around.  My mom had a nice chat with the workers there before we got back on the road.
We decided we were getting hungry and decided to see what we could find.  A Cracker Barrell was right off the exit and sounded good to us, so that's where we went. We did have to wait about 10 minutes to get in so we looked around the shop while we waited.  I found a few fun things I wanted and then they called our name.  My mom and I shared a yummy pot roast meal.  It was so big we took half of it with us to eat on the plane.
After eating we got back into the car to finish our drive in the rain to the airport.  We made it to the airport without much problem but getting to the car rental return place proved to be difficult when I read the arrows wrong and the street we took, took us right out of the airport.  So we had to put it back into the GPS and figure out how to get back.  We did get back and found the car rental return and I felt a lot better.
We got into the airport and their was a long line of people waiting to check in with luggage.  Luckily we didn't have to check in luggage and just needed to get our boarding passes.  I got mine without problems, but my mom's wouldn't print out.  We had to have a ticket person help us, but she was able to print it right out.
So then we went through security and found our gate.  We had about 20 minutes before they started boarding our flight.  We then got on the plane and got all situated for our long flight home.  The flight was good, no drama.  We ate our leftovers and snacks from the airline.  We watched movies and played our tablets.
After we landed my mom called my dad to pick us up.  We did check our bags at the gate so we had to wait for our luggage.  After getting our bags we went out and waited for my dad.  Since it was Memorial Day it was super busy and it took my dad longer then usual to get to us but he made it and took me home.  I had a great time with my mom and Wendy's family but I was happy to be home with my family!