We were scheduled to leave at 6:00 am on Saturday morning, so we took Avalanche to the kennel on Friday night. After going to bed early, we received a text from Southwest at 1:00 am that our flight had been canceled due to weather and that we'd been rebooked on another flight leaving at 5:15 pm.
Not great.
1. Avalanche spent an unnecessary night at the kennel.
2. An already short trip was made even shorter by 12 hours.
3. The car rental office at Houston-Hobby airport closed at 7:00 pm and we were not scheduled to arrive until after 8:00 pm.
4. Our boarding positions on the rescheduled flight were C44 and C45 and if you know anything about Southwest, you know those are TERRIBLE.
If it weren't for the aforementioned tour that was already paid for and that we'd been looking forward to for months, we probably would have canceled the trip altogether, gone to pick up Avalanche, and called it a day.
However, we decided to make the best of it and go anyway. C called the car rental company and worked out being able to pick up a car at Houston-Bush airport (which was open much later) but still return it to Houston-Hobby airport.
We went to the airport a little early and used two of our credits to upgrade our boarding positions to A11 and A12, which allowed us to get the pair of aisle/middle seats in the exit row with no window seat (a compromise on my part because I only ever like to sit in the window seat, but we didn't want to risk having a stranger sit between us because the trip was already off to a bit of a rocky start!). The flight was pretty uneventful and we arrived in Houston right around 8:00 pm. We took an uber from one airport to the other (a 40ish minute ride), checked in at the rental counter at 8:55 pm, and then waited until after 10:00 pm - more than an hour! - before they had an available car for us. Such an aggravating experience!
Thankfully the remainder of the trip was amazing! We went to The Color Factory, which was very cool, and also to the whole reason for the trip: a VIP Tour at Johnson Space Center! If you know us, you know we love all things space and this tour was beyond incredible! The highlight was being able to go into the historic mission control room and let me tell you that I shed more than a few tears because I was so overcome with emotion. I would take that tour again in a heartbeat!
After the tour, it was pretty much time to head to the airport for our flight home. What a crazy quick trip, but still a super fun time!
Happy Tails to you!
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