Houston, we have a problem

For New Years we decided to head to Texas with out tailgating crew to cheer on the Huskies at the Alamo bowl.  San Antonio is not an easy spot to get to from Seattle, especially with only three weeks notice.  Alaska does have a direct to Austin, but it was sold out/quite pricey for the days we wanted.  Our most economical option was Continental via Houston so I go that booked and managed to get upgraded via RR so it wouldn’t be so bad.

BK needed to work on the 27th, so we had decided to take the red eye into Houston, then a short flight into Austin where we would pick up our rental car and drive to San Antonio.  About 20 minutes before our plane is supposed to leave Seattle (1:10am departure), the gate agents announce “we have some bad news.”  Apparently our crew was coming in from Philadephia via Houston, and would not be landing in Seattle for another 90 minutes.  Seriously?  and you wait until now to tell us?  We hunkered down on seats nearby and awaited our opportunity to board.   Boarding took forever, so I think our plane finally left around 3:15am.  I usually have trouble sleeping on planes, but conked right out tonight.

Our connection to Austin was leaving at 9:15, so arriving in Houston at 9:00am we weren’t sure what was going to happen.  Having bee seated in row 1 was an advantage so we zoomed off the plane to th desk to figure out where to go – only to be told they had re-booked us onto teh 2:15pm flight.  Excuse me?  that’s 5 hours later.  How about the 10:00am flight?  it’s full.  11:00am?  12:00pm?  both full.   Finally she said we could try and go standby at 10:00am – great.  we rushed over to that gate and got on the list – BUT, even if we made it on the plane, our bags wouldn’t.  lame.  We decided to go for it anyway as at least in Austin we could pick up our car and go explore while we waited for our bags rather than spend 5 hours at Bush Intercontinental.

We did in fact make it onto the 10:00am puddle-jumper, landed in Austin, picked up our car and started to explore Texas.  First need was for food, which we found at Kerbey Lane Cafe.  We had migas and then shared a side of blueberry pancakes (their specialty).  The pancakes were sweeter than most – BK thinks the batter was almost muffin batter like.

With a little more time to kill, we went in search of our favorite spot, Costco – check one more off the list!  And conveniently located next to Costco was the Hey Cupcake! airstream.  We bought three:  Michael Jackson, Mint Rushmore and Sweetberry.

lack of sleep was starting to catch up with us, so we headed to the airport and took a quick nap in the car until our bags arrived.  We were thrilled to see they actually arrived, snatched them up and hit the road for San Antonio.

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