Career Change....

It is official - I am changing careers. Although recruiting has been a fabulous world, it is time for me to get into something that I have a true calling for - travel planning. You see - I am brilliant at making sure to add as much stress and as much expense as possible to a trip.

Thursday morning, K picks me up at my NEW HOUSE to go the airport. We head to IAH - I am driving her car (she is directionally challenged). When figuring out the terminal, I ask her to listen to the message I received from Orbitz - they are so awesome they even send you the gate info. They also lead off by telling you what airport you are supposed to be at. UHHHHHH - we were supposed to be at Hobby. SHIT. I step on the gas and gun it as fast as possible in Houston. We were those girls who were running in flip flops through the parking lot about to face plant at any moment. We tell American Airlines (they too fly out of Hobby, apparently) our sob story - THEY COULD CARE LESS. We strip to our bra and panties to go through security and get some awesome HEB feet from walking through the nasty airport with no shoes on. Long story short - we made it. And with enough time to have a healthy breakfast of french fries and diet coke. As we are breathing for the first time in an hour, K decides to look at the return tickets to make sure we didn't miss anything. Uhh....we flew back in to IAH. No kidding.

So, late last night after nursing a hangover pretty much the entire day, we get to IAH at 10 p.m. Because we are not evil, we decided to not ask our parents to pick us up from the airport. Instead, we got a cab. To Hobby. It's far. And expensive. From there, we had to spend a little extra time finding the car considering it was not exactly on our brains when we parked there. What was also not on our brain - economy parking. So, that brilliance in booking added a good $200 to our trip plus tons of stress. But honestly, it was hilarious. K was dying laughing the entire ride from IAH to Hobby - I was speechless. For the first time in my life, I could not say anything. Other than - I am a complete idiot.

On a side note, Orbitz should not allow you to do this. They should have the biggest, boldest, most obnoxious warning sign before check out saying - HEY IDIOT, YOU ARE ABOUT TO COMPLETELY F THINGS UP - GO BACK. LIKE NOW. I know, I know - don't blame it on Orbitz - it was clearly my fault. But still, I would venture to say that the majority of Houston Humans do not know that anyone other than Southwest flies out of Hobby.

Okay, I am off to check and see how bad I screwed up my flight to Santa Fe. It was made in the same week so odds are - I did something wrong. Like picked the wrong weekend or something.