Homeward Bound-Steamboat Springs-Denver

Well it was a short night, alarm went off at 4am. Probably didn't need to get up that early as we were packed and had tidied up the night before. Our shuttle picked us up at 5.20am. We had dressed for the plane so not too many clothes on, it was -25 this morning and the shuttle's heater didn't feel like it were working. We also had to pick other people up so he would leave the door open. My feet were like blocks of ice. It was too cold to sleep and eventually it became light, but you couldn't see anything out the windows as they were iced over. After 1 1/2 hours we stopped for a toilet break. After we stopped we all started stripping off it was so hot not sure if the heaters were even working before that. It took us about 3 1/2 hrs to get to Denver. I will never whinge about Australian airports, it was chaos. We eventually found the end of the line to check in, we tried last night but we never got any boarding passes, but we still had luggage to check in. This line felt like it snaked around the airport. Felt like I was in Disneyland all over again. It moved pretty quickly and we had plenty of time, not everyone did. It is all self check-in, which confused us a bit as we thought we had checked in the night before. A United Airlines lady helped us, but had trouble at the self check-in, so she had to take us to the counter and do it. We all started to panic, what was going to go wrong this time. She gave us our boarding passes, next stop security. It wasn't too bad, it's just a stressful process. We ended up having an hour before our flight left.Read more