Off to an interesting start!

So...we had pretty crazy day today. We planned this trip months ago...and the timing was supposed to be good for both of us. Shawn just finished up with the Spring season. And I hadn't planned on getting into Hygiene school so I really didn't have anything going on except for trying to plan a trip during the week that my doctor is out of the office for surgeries. So much for planning well in advance. Shawn is missing tryouts. Which usually aren't until June. I'm missing the first week of school...and the first block includes Anatomy & Physiology, and some College Success class. I'm FREAKING out. I'm missing 10 lecture ours of just anatomy & physiology alone. Shawn is missing tryouts which is a huge part of his job. AND when I get home I'm going to be going part time. Which is a huge stress in itself (for obvious $ reasons and figuring out how we are going to survive at work).
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Mmk so I'm done complaining. We are going to try our best to relax and not worry about any stress that will be waiting for us when we get home. But let me just tell you about today. We left bright and early 5:40 am to leave for the airport. We drove Shawn's car to Rick & Stacey's and Rick drove us to the airport. He is the only person we know that is up that early on a saturday morning. We got checked in and everything just fine. Boarded the plane...our seats were not together. What the hell? I told myself out-loud that it was not the end of the world. We had a connecting flight in Houston so the trip was only like 3 hours long. I tried hard to study while we were separated.

We got to Houston and I called on our hotel reservation that we made thru Priceline. My Mom helped me make it and we thought we got one near the airport/port. Nope! It was going to cost 40$ with a taxi ride to our hotel and then another 40$ tomorrow to go get on our ship. We freaked out. We did not want to spend that much on just transportation. We want to be able to do fun things on the cruise!!! So after not being able to cancel our hotel reservations we decided to try to rent a car. But that didn't work (long story). And then this nice lady helped us figure out the right bus route. So we waited for about 40 min for a shuttle bus that took us to the train. We missed the train and had to wait 2 1/2 hours for the next train!!! So we did. It is nice and warm here. Really really humid though! We met some fun brazilians at the train station. I should have taken a picture with them. So we chatted with them a bit and then boarded our train 2 1/2 hours later.
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We called to get a taxi from our train stop to our Hotel. It was only 2 miles so we decided we could afford the fair for that. But wait...since today was the day from hell the taxi of course didn't show up. I put on my socks and running shoes and we walked 2 miles or so to our dang hotel. BLAH. Shawn carried his back pack the whole way that had our laptop, and all of my school books. It was so heavy. Oh and our bags barely made the 50lb check in cut off. But let me just tell all of my family and close friends who know me well...that I was a trooper. I know...hard to believe. Just ask Shawn! I complained just like 1...maybe 2 times. I promise! I kept telling Shawn that it was an adventure. And that it would be funny to talk about some time.

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vIcToRy!!!
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That was a really long post...that could have been really short.
We are exhausted and are going to bed. We will be going "dark" for 8 days. No cell phones, no computers. Can't Wait!!!