Austin On My Mind

This past week I visited my girlfriend in Austin, TX. She moved to the area after she got a job being and Asst. Director at a camp in Marble Falls. The camp is called TOS (The Outdoor School) which is under the umbrella of Camp Champions. This week I plan on blogging more about my trip giving a day by day account on what happened and all the amazing experiences I encountered while there. So without further ado, the beginning of my trip!

I am lumping the first two days in together since not much happened and it was a traveling day. I got to O'Hare Airport Saturday about 4:45pm for my 7:55 flight. That is when most everything fell apart. They had us switch gates 3 times before telling us that the plane we were to be taking to Austin was deemed, "Not fit for flight". Great! The plane they found for us was at yet another gate and we were going to be delayed again because it was not meant to be taking off for another 5-6 hours again. Thankfully they gassed it up, put in more oil, cleaned it, stocked it with food and while we were waiting on the tarmac, de-iced it because at this point it had started to snow. After leaving about 1 1/2 hrs. late, the flight itself was fairly uneventful. In fact I had an entire row to myself the entire flight. The annoying part was another traveler left his seat and went to the empty row in front of me, sat in the seat directly in front of me and proceeded to put his seat in the full and downright position! HE HAD AN ENTIRE ROW TO CHOOSE FROM!!! It also didn't help that whatever he ate was giving him gas and it smelled rank!!

Finally, we landed into Austin-Bergstrom International Airport at around 10:40pm. I've been in a fair share of airports in my day but none that looked like they had closed before all the planes got in. all of the stores had their security bars up, all the lights were off except for ones that lit our walkway to the exit. It was a weird experience. Quiet, no music, no workers, the only people who were there were two security guards at the door leading to the outside.

I met up with Madeline and we embarked on our hour long drive back to her place in Marble Falls. The next morning we had no real plans for the day and decided to go to the H-E-B, the grocery store to stock up for the week. After that we basically lounged around, I got to see her camp and check out all the fun stuff that could be had on camp. and then we had an early night so we could start early tomorrow with our week of adventure!! More tomorrow!