Rough travel day

In case you were ever wondering, this is what it looks like outside of the Hytche at 2:30 a.m.  You know, if there's just some odd reason you ever wanted to know.

Yeah, that's right, the itinerary said to arrive at the Hytche at 2:30 a.m. for a 3 a.m. departure to the airport this morning.  As everyone arrived, you could almost tell who had decided to just stay up all night and who went to sleep for a few hours.  Half were saying "good morning" and others were like, okay, it's time for me to go to bed.  Either way, everyone was half asleep.  I usually would have gone to bed but I figured if I went to bed at 10 p.m. I would either A: have a hard time sleeping or B: fall immediately asleep and have an impossible time waking up at 1:45. 

Once we arrived at BWI, I was simply amazed at how many people were at the airport.  We lucked out and got there just in time because after I checked in, the check-in line was literally out of the door.  There had to be at least 200 in line.  There was more in line than there was for security - I've never seen that before.

And what better way to continue a travel day than to have plane issues?  We boarded our flight to Kansas City (which then was to connect to Oklahoma) and then found out that one piece of their communication equipment wasn't working (who needs that? ;-) )  so a technician had to come on board and first address what the issue was.  Once he figured it out (apparently we needed a new piece?) then he had to replace it.  Essentially, we were on the plane for over an hour and a half before the plane actually moved.

 Hillary Haley was conked out before our plane trouble was even figured out!

And to make things better, since we were delayed at BWI, we caused our flight from Kansas City to Oklahoma City to be delayed.  (Didn't we have this same issue last year?!)  And even more, this is the flight that I had an "A" boarding pass for!  So much for that, I was definitely center seat :-/

Statue/garden area outside of Oklahoma City's Will Rogers Airport

Apparently the OU football team, fresh off of a Fiesta Bowl title, arrived at the airport shortly after we did.  The only difference?  They arrived via charter plane and never even stepped foot in the airport.