Showing posts with label Houston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Houston. Show all posts
On the road - Day 2 - still in Houston
Did pretty good with sleeping in the bed. Some of you may not know, I have some rather significant issues with my lower back, several desiccated disks, and with my left hip, in fact over six years ago my dr told me to get it replaced. After moving to Mexico I discovered hammock sleeping, OMG, what a life saver. I am mostly pain free in the mornings which is AWESOME. For any of you that deal with near constant and chronic pain, you know what I mean.
Here's an uber cool start to the day, we peeked out the back window and sitting on the top of the wood fence just maybe 10 feet away was a hawk. Of course rather than paying close attention and gathering my field marks for identification I turned to get my camera so I could show you all the cool sight, this movement caused the bird to take flight. Based on my initial impressions however I think it was probably a Red Shouldered Hawk.
So Tom and I spent another day shopping, then out for a monstrous Korean meal. We each got two new prs of shoes.
We got a notice from our airline that we still have time to upgrade our seating, if we act now...., yeah right! We tried every which way but upside down on the internet, then tried to call, 15 minutes after they closed or the day.
Well lets see what tomorrow brings. Our flight departs Houston at 4 so a bit more time for shopping in the morning. I am SO not looking forward to a 13 hour flight.
How's that for a hint!
On the road - destination 1, day 1
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.
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.
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