Further adventuring

Hello,

We are in Houston and ready to lay over for the night.

Getting in was interesting.

We kept hearing about how bad the weather was.

Then the landing was smooth and nice.

There were so many jets that _had_ to land that we got stuck in a line... to get the jet off the taxiway and to a terminal to unload.

Nuts. We waited for more than an hour and fifteen minutes to taxi to a gate to unload from the plane.

Some time ask Craig about the lost dental chair that was part of his luggage.  The man is working on his sainthood points...

Once we got our stuff the fun of getting to a hotel started.

We called the hotel and they sent a van. One hour later, we were still waiting!

One of the guys called on behalf of Craig ( who was still trying to find the missing luggage/chair ) and he was  told it was because of the flooding.

 

About half an hour after that we said "enough of this" and got a taxi.

Mapquest tells us it's less than 5 miles from the airport to the hotel.

Really? I don't believe that airport shuttle could have been having that hard a time to get to us.

So we hired a Taxi. 

The driver didn't think you could get all four of us and our luggage in his mini-van.( Craig caught up later once they found the missing chair.)

He was amazed how much we got into his van.

And we're  Off!!

And we ran into roadblocks for closed roads.

The taxi ended up retracing our path and then driving a very roundabout route to get here. It tripped our miles and drive time . .

On the way we got to see more of Houston and more closed roads for flooding.

And finally we're  here.

To give you an idea how much rain they really got, take a look at the attached picture. That's the side street beside the hotel. Moments before a Dodge Charger went down  this street with his tires pretty  much under water.

Wow I suppose they really did get a lot of rain while were trying to get here.

Any how that caps off the saga of getting to Houston.

Thanks for reading,

Blair 

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