Last night I went to bed at 10pm, quickly fell asleep, woke up at midnight feeling overheated, fluffed the duvet, found a cool part of the bed and fell back asleep, finally waking/getting up at 8:15. Yeah, I know that was about 10 hours, but Teresa only got up a few minutes later.
I tried to check-in using the United website but kept coming
back to “you haven’t been checked in”. I guess we’ll have to complete it at the
airport; we’ll certainly have enough time for it.
We left the apt at 10am and had our last US breakfast in Kathie’s
Kitchen. Teresa talked to the bus boy and learned he’s 40 years old (he
doesn’t look that old) from Mexico and has been here 24 years without papers. Teresa
had the avocado toast with 2 eggs medium and sausage patties and I two eggs
over easy, hash browns with sausage links and an English muffin. We both had
coffee for a total of $40.51 and I left a $6.30 tip. I paid for it with my credit
card from our table. I asked the cashier and found they get a message when the
bill is paid.
United oversold our flight and was taking bids around $450+
if you would move to another flight but I ignored it.
We stopped at a nearby gas station and I filled the Toyota
Corolla with gas for $27.36.
I stopped in Walgreens to see if they had the pill
container like mine that Teresa wants. They didn’t have it, will probably add
it to my next Amazon order, but I bought a Chicago Sun-Times.
We returned to the apt for final packing. In some ways it’s
easier this time because we just take everything that’s here. On the other
hand, we’ve bought a few things that will take up space and add more weight.
We’re washing the clothes we considered dirty so everything
packed will be clean and we won’t have to do laundry when we return to
Envigado.
The plan is to leave here at 3pm and have soup in Omega.
I was a little worried that my 5G plan might expire as I’m on the way to the
car return place so I wrote down the address. We left the apt at 2:30 and
decided to skip Omega. Waze guided me right to the car return location
and it was just a matter of following signs from there. We dropped off the car and
left the keys on the dashboard as instructed and headed for the airport train.
We took it to Terminal 1 where I used a machine to print our luggage tags but I
think I goofed and didn’t continue with the next step which should have been
the boarding passes. After waiting in line, we checked our bags and then
realized I hadn’t printed our boarding passes. A United worker at the machines
completed the process for us. Back at the counter, our bags went through but I
had no idea how much they weighed in at.
We went through a line that took us to immigration first, no
problem there, then through the TSA check. I had to take out both computers and
put them in a separate bin. Didn’t have to take off our shoes though so that
was nice.
We had time to spare so we stopped at Rick Bayless’ Tortas
Frontera in Concourse B where I ordered a guacamole salad and a Coke for
Teresa and a Cuban sandwich and an iced tea for me for a total of $51.13. The
whole process, ordering and receiving, took about 45-minutes but a table came
available just as I was picking up our food. I liked my sandwich but Teresa
found her salad too spicy (no surprise there from a Mexican restaurant even
though I had them hold the jalapenos). I gave Teresa the other half of my
sandwich and I finished most of her salad.
I received a message from T-Mobile that I’ve used my 5GB
plan. (Talk about timing.)
We moved to Concourse C and found our gate with an hour to spare.
We found a couple free chairs and collapsed in them. Teresa heard them call for
Group 2 so we got in line. When they checked us in at the gate it turned out
only Teresa’s boarding pass was for Group 2, mine was for Group 5 but because
we were together they let us pass.
Our 3-hour flight left 10 minutes late but still arrived on
time. This time we didn’t have to claim and recheck our bags in Houston we just
had a long walk to another Concourse. We stopped at a self-purchase stand and
bought, credit card only, a sandwich to share for $16.40. ☹
We still had an hour before our flight and found seats near
the gate. This time when we got on, nothing was said about our boarding passes.
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