Moody and Mama's Fantastic Voyage...

Moody has some video of this I hope he posts but here is the text version of our trip home from Fish's wedding.

Get to San Antonio airport around 3:15. I remember the time because my flight was supposed to leave / board at 3:50. I was a little worried about not having enough time to get to the gate...

Both Moody and I had a short hop from San Antonio to Dallas then a connection home. Moody's flight to Dallas was an hour or so later than mine and I would have a longer layover and then we would both get on the same flight home to Sac.

Enter massive storm hitting Dallas creating vortexes on the runway making it impossible to take off or land. My flight gets delayed to all hell while Moody's gets canceled all together. Fist he books a flight the next morning because all flights were already canceled or would have left by the time he gets to Dallas.

I call up to find out how my connection looks and decide to take Moody 'under my wing' and put him on my flight. (Turns out I would end up needing his luck just as much as he needed my flight out of San Antone.)

As we get to the counter to get his new tickets printed out we find that our connection should be taking off 10 min before we land...but we shouldn't worry about that as there is a good chance the connection will get delayed as well. We decide to go for it.

But then Moody finds out that canceled flights don't get their baggage put onto new ones. They just threw the bags back out onto the baggage claim area and you have to re-check them. Jason runs back for his bag and calls me with news of a massive line of people having to do the same thing. We don't have much time and I'm not sure if he is going to make it. Next thing I now he is walking over to me with his bag sans all liquid items and a fingernail clipping case he liked (a gift idea for anybody trying to woo Moody perhaps?) His bag is big but should be able to pass for carry on.

Finally we are boarding our first plane of the day sometime after 6pm. (The plane had not taken off from Dallas to come pick us up until after we were supposed to have left.)

The plane backs up - I'm thinking to myself sweet we are about to take off at least. No such luck. Delayed 45 min. Time comes and goes and we get delayed another 45 min. Finally after over an hour and a half we get the go ahead to take off and fly the 3 hour drive by car to Dallas.

Upon landing we call only to find out our connecting flight has been canceled. Here is where Jason's luck came to save the day. He somehow gets told of a magical flight number 2037. I say magical because over 4-5 calls it has not once been mentioned. We called later asking if we could get put on standby and the operator didn't know it was still in the airport.

We rush to the gate and start to stand in line. We get told by other people there are 30 passengers on standby. We are not even on the list yet. More good news of all hotels in a 30 min radius are booked solid because of the storm. It wasn't looking good.

We watch name after name get called and put onto the plane. Jason and I have not moved in the line at all. Finally they run out of people already on standby and we slowly make our way to the front of the line thinking any second they are going to fill up. We were one of the last 5-8 that got on the plane. Taxi out and take off to sweet Sacramento.

And to finish the night a 20 dollar bill was just lying on the ground not ten feet from the car... oh and the next morning my power supply on my work computer fried right after the computer displayed the login screen.

Best part of the trip was getting to hang out with Moody and seeing how long we could stay 'drunkenly optimistic' even though no booze was involved it would have been nice.