A Corner Room and a Cancelled Flight in Houston

It was a beautiful intimate wedding on a rainy Houston day.

Kathy’s nephew and his bride had planned a ceremony in a gazebo on the grounds of Brenner’s on the Bayou, one of Houston’s best known restaurants.

They wisely moved it into their private dining room, and we arrived in time to see an earlier wedding party getting soaked in the gazebo. Inside it was dry.

We thoroughly enjoyed the wedding, the dinner, and the chance to spend some time with two of Kathy’s nieces, a nephew (the groom), a grandniece and grandnephew, and of course her youngest brother (the father of the groom), with whom we hope to meet up in Frankfurt in a couple of days.

Our downtown hotel was the C. Baldwin, Curio Collection by Hilton. We’ve stayed in corner rooms, but this was really a corner room.

Experienced travelers that we are, we moved out to the IAH Doubletree the night before our flight and went to bed early. Brian awakened at some point and noticed our flight to Dallas had been cancelled. That captures any traveler’s attention.

AA had already rebooked us, and we noticed only when retrieving our boarding passes that our flight was out of HOU, the small Houston Hobby Airport, rather than IAH, Bush Intercontinental Airport. Another day, another 30-minute Uber ride at 5:30 AM before the heavy traffic started.

We’d experienced a similar switch between airports back in April with grandson Jace (ORY to CDG - actually two switches in total), so this is déja vu, as the French would say.

We’re starting this travel day tired, which may help us sleep on our DFW-FRA flight.

We’ll see if any more travel surprises lie ahead.