We get some strange looks when mentioning that we are travelling on Christmas day. This is the second time we have done this in the past few years and it actually works out pretty well. When kids reach the teen years - the kids roll out of bed at 10am and the excitement of Christmas wears off by noon. It adds some additional energy to the holiday and the airport crowds are generally pretty light.
Fortunate to be able to experience raising by both and girls. Wonder if you can guess which suitcase belongs to Brett and which belongs to Kelsey ?
Anybody who has flown Southwest airlines knows about the joys of their open seating process. You are generally given a boarding order based upon when you check in for your flight. As I checked in approximately 16 milliseconds after it was available - I was in pretty good shape. However they have a policy of allowing families traveling with 'small children' to board after their priority boarding. On our flight that turned out to be about 70% of the plane. We also had a emotional support dog on the plane. Not quite as good as the emotional support duck that was on another flight.
It was otherwise a smooth flight and travel into Houston and we picked up our minivan and hit the road. One of the downsides of traveling on Christmas is the limited options for food. The only thing we found open on the way to our hotel outside Houston was Jack in the Box drive thru. I had not been to a JITB in many years and couple probably wait a few more decades before returning.
We settled into our two bedroom suite and looked forward to our travel to Austin the next day.
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