Sunday, February 2, 2014

After playing at my last OSU Spirit Band gig, my parents, one of my brothers, and I spent the previous night at a hotel near the airport in OKC.  I met my group inside the terminal at Will Rogers Airport for our flight.  Unfortunately, it started snowing as we went through security and by our scheduled departure time, the plane was frozen and needed to be de-iced.  This process took a little over an hour and by the time we got to Houston we were cutting it close to making our flight.  We could see our plane as we taxied into Bush International and attempted to run through the terminal.  After a dead sprint that resulted in my backpack deciding to be embarrassing and unzip, along with some sudden realizations that we were all out of shape, we missed our plane by just a couple of minutes.  After getting the options of being split up and having two people catch a flight that had a layover in Panama City and the other two catching a direct flight to San Jose that would get in at midnight or 1 AM, we decided to try again the next morning.  This unfortunate occurrence did have its positives.  We were taken in by my grandparents in Houston for the night and got to watch the Super Bowl.  Even though the game was awful, it was nice visiting.