Back from St. Louis

Thank goodness, we are back safely. Don't get me wrong we had a blast! Carmen's speech went well, I am so proud of her. We had fantastic food, saw the Cardinal's game (they won), had some amazing entertainment, and saw several people who earned 1 million dollars. Carmen's manufacture gives away $1,000,000 to all distributors who sale 30,000 units. It was great to see these millionaires who worked so hard for what they had earned. It is great to be surrounded by so many entrepreneurs and to be a small part of their celebration for their success.

Let me be the first one to tell you though. Carmen, will be doing things that they have never seen before. To be very honest with you I found many of those people were not big thinkers. Most are not willing to increase their personal growth thus when I mentioned Carmen's secret weapon being Dani Johnson their ego did not allow them to believe that. Most just think that Carmen is very talented. Which I don't doubt that Carmen is a very talented woman however, she and I both are certain that Dani has helped her to achieve her goals must faster. It's O.K., documentation speaks louder than conversation and Carmen will continue to build that documentation.

On the way back, from St. Louis is where we had the most excitement. We were suppose to fly from St. Louis to Detroit then on to Saginaw MI. However, on the way to Detroit there was an announcement from the pilot stating that they were having some minor electrical trouble and we would would be making a brief stop in Indianapolis. Though his voice remained calm the events that followed made me very nervous. I noticed the flight attendants moved very hurriedly and we started descending very fast. I have never been on a commercial airline and went into an actual dive. This plane, shortly after the pilot announced we were making an unplanned stop, went into a gradual but hurried dive. The thoughts began to hit me that we were not that far from Detroit maybe another 30 to 40 minutes, so to make a stop in Indianapolis instead of continuing on to Detroit hinted that there could be some serious problems. When landing we were greeted by fire trucks and a couple of police cars on the runway. When the pilot brought the plane to a stop he completely killed all of the power in the plane. Afterwards, he stood up and came to the cabin and explained what had occurred in the air. It seems that smoke started to fill the cabin and was coming from the instrument panel on the aircraft. After the firemen looked over the aircraft they felt the smoke was coming from the batteries and decided to tow our plane into the gate. We had about a 30 min tow to the gate and then we thankfully deboarded the aircraft and was put on another plane headed to Detroit.

Eventually, although being incredibly tired we made it home safely.