Day 1
So Monday, about dusk, I noticed the lovely pinkness of the the evening sky. I took that as a positive sign, remembering the rhyme Red sky at night sailors delight, Red sky in morning sailors take warning. And then later last night, nearly 11pm, I stepped out and saw the moon, stars, sky, clouds and again, a positive sign. I felt sure the weather was breaking and clear skies were on the way. Oh, I guess not everyone knows that for the 5 or 6 days prior we had been having rain, lots n lots of rain due to a tropical weather push thatbturned into Debby.
Well 4am came pretty quickly, especially as I had slept in the bed rather than my normal hammock, and tossed and turned all night, might as well get used to it I reasoned.
The sky was again obscured and low, and a dense mist prevailed.
Then, upon checking email I found the notification from United that our flight was delayed by 1 hour 20 minutes, waiting for the crew to arrive. Great!
So here we sit, in the Merida airport, on the cold marmol floor as seating is at a premium since ours isn't the only flight on hold.
Alrighty, 7:26 and our crew just arrived, we'll be out of here in no time!
Funny, the crew, once on the plane announced that we couldn't pull away from the gate until 8:18, because of a required rest period for flight crews between flights. Didn't seem like much of a rest to me as they had been busy moving about and working ....
So flight was fine, a little drama between the passenger seated in front of us and an attendant - all passive aggressive. The passenger, traveling with a child, ordered like 4 different beverages - now odd part, it was an older woman attendant that took the order and I could see she was having attitude, but it was a male attendant that brought the drinks that copped the tude. Odd transference of aggression.
And cool part - we had a friend on the same flight so had a short visit.
We arrived in ...HOUSTON - and our friend, with trusted pup Bailey, were waiting right outside of baggage pickup.
So Day 1 down, we dined, drank, visited, shopped, ate a bit more, and retired for the evening.
Day 2 will have us still in Houston, doing much of the same, so might not fill you all in on that.
I am traveling with the ipad2. I haven' quite worked out adding photos yet so will need to research that. And I am also apparently ving trouble with spacing, and paragraphing...
So stay tuned to find out out where Thursday goes.