BYU-OU Part 1: Destination Dallas

Our adventure began early in the morning as we left our house a little late. We got to the ticket counter to check in, and the airline attendants told us we were five minutes too late. They had overbooked our flight by ten people and we were supposed to check in a half hour before the flight left. They told us they could reschedule and get us to Dallas by 5:20. We nearly went home, but they told us that they could check flights with other airlines. They found that Frontier could get us there by 3:15. They booked that flight for us free of charge (which was nice of them, but probably fair since we weren’t actually late for the flight itself). We then had a little wait in the airport. We were just happy to be on our way.

We went through Denver and caught our plane to Dallas. In Dallas we went to pick up our rental car we all laughed when we saw that it was almost exactly the same car as my dad drives. The only difference was that it was a year newer and a very slightly different color. So much for the fun of a rental car.

My poor sister-in-law, who had been sick with a cold, had terrible ear pain and then lost her hearing in her right ear during the flight. We called a doctor and he told us it was common, and that she needed to clear her sinuses so that her eardrum would loosen up. That meant our first item of business was to find a place to buy her some medicine. We drove all around and finally found a Costco, which had the needed nasal spray. Then we were off to find our hotel. We had it pulled up on the GPS on my dad’s iPhone, and we knew we were near, but we couldn’t find it anywhere. Things were very tense because of all that had gone wrong, the quickly approaching kick-off time, and our family’s notoriously terrible sense of direction.

We finally got to the hotel, where we called a taxi to take us to the game as Jessica sprayed medicine up her nose—possibly the worst way to have to take medicine (in my opinion, worse than getting a shot). We waited 20 minutes for the taxi, which was stuck in pre-game traffic. By the time he picked us up, it was 20 minutes to kick-off time. Luckily our lateness meant that there was little traffic. As the new Dallas Cowboy’s Stadium came into view, our taxi driver told us to take a picture.

We walked into the AMAZING stadium right as BYU was kicking off.