Last weekend we took a trip to South Padre Island for my niece’s wedding. It was a great, if perhaps a bit warm, event. We took off Thursday morning on the cheapest flight we could scrape up, which of course meant good ol’ Southwest. (I love to hate that airline apparently.) By the way, when I say “Thursday morning,” I mean bright and early at 5:00 AM. I don’t know why, but this departure time came as kind of an unpleasant, last-minute surprise to us. Despite having purchased the tickets several weeks ago, we somehow overlooked this bit of info until a few days before check-in. Oops. Being rather adaptable though, we got a hotel room down at the airport the night before to kind of cushion the blow. We still had to get on a shuttle at 3:30 in the morning, but that’s better than getting up and making the hour-long drive from our house at that time of morning. The good news about leaving so early was it gave us plenty of time to make our connecting flight in Dallas. The bad news was, we didn’t really need extra time because it was a five hour layover. Geez, did we look at this itinerary at all when we bought these tickets? Oh well, you have to make a few concessions to save a buck or two. At least everything stayed close to on time for a change, which was welcome after our last few flight debacles.

The second leg of the trip took us to our destination of Harlingen, TX, which I’ve never heard of. Nice airport though, very small and easy to get in and out of. Luckily my sister was able to pick us up for the hour-ish drive to Padre, as we opted to skip a rental car for the weekend. She dropped us at the condo we’d rented, and we stumbled in for a much-needed nap. The condo was… “acceptable.” I would characterize it as pretty run down and basic, but it was clean and comfy which are the highest attributes on our priority list. It was also in a great location, with easy walking distances to the beach, several restaurants, and the wedding events. Unfortunately, although the distances were very manageable, the humidity was NOT. Holy smokes. I think we are perhaps too acclimated to our arid home climate, which usually hovers around 40% humidity. We stepped out the door into the 85% sauna that was Padre and very nearly fainted. I’m honestly not sure how people live there, it is just quite inhospitable. But hey, I guess that’s why A/C was invented.

Overall, a great trip. The wedding was really nice, not to mention fun, and we got to see some old friends/family and meet some new ones. Had a pleasantly uneventful journey home, readjusted to our local weather and time zone, and are now resting comfortably in our familiar rut.

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