Will We Ever Get Out Of Houston???

The morning was planed out so perfectly: We set the alarm for 3:45 a.m., said our goodbyes, loaded up the rental car and headed out towards the airport to drop off the car ad get on our way. We finished up with the car and took the shuttle bus over to the airport and worked our way up to the Delta counter to check in. As I waited with the bags, Jim went over to talk with them to confirm the flight information and as he was talking, I could see his eyes getting wider wider and getting a little more animated. Hmmm……I thought……couldn’t be anything too big, right?? Turns out we weren’t flying out of Intercontinental Airport but actually Hobby Airport, which is on the other side of town - yikes!! I never thought to double check this since, to my knowledge, only Southwest Airlines flew out of Hobby and I figured Delta flew out of the larger airport like the other big airlines. I guess, since we were flying a smaller Delta connection flight, it went out of Hobby. So, we discovered this at about 5:30 a.m. and our flight was scheduled to leave at 6:25 a.m. Trying to keep our panic at sub lethal levels, we raced outside, jumped in a cab and implored him to drive us to Hobby Airport as fast as he could.

As we were going along, Jim got on the phone with Delta to explain what happened and see what options we had. For a fleeting moment, I felt like we were contestants on The Amazing Race rushing from one airport to another to get our next set of instructions! Even though our taxi driver was valiantly sailing down highway 59 trying to get us there on time, we were not expected to get there until 6:15 which was not going to leave us enough time to get to the gate. I guess the Delta agent had pity on us and was able to change us to a 7:55 flight connecting through Atlanta and getting us into San Juan at 6 p.m. All for only a $50 change fee - talk about relief! So we got that squared away and he dropped us off at Hobby. Then we get into Hobby only to see the line to get through security about 46 miles long because apparently they cluster all their flights to get out early in the morning so I started to panic again thinking we still wouldn’t make the new flight. Geez…….what a morning! Suffice it to say, we wound through security fairly quickly and efficiently and we were on our merry way.

Lesson learned? OH YEAH. We’ll always be doing a little double checking even when we think we have it all figured out!