This morning we woke at 7am, packed, ate breakfast, and then the first 6 people took the hotel shuttle to the airport (since it can only fit 7 people). They arrived at the airport at 8:30am and got into what may be the worst check-in line in Southwest history! I arrived at the airport in the second shuttle at 9am, joined the rest of the team in line, and then waited until 9:55am to check-in! That is 85 minutes to check-in! This long wait caused our bags to be late checked. After checking in we rushed through security and got to the gate at 10:05am (5 minutes before the gate closed). The plane had already boarded, so we just got on and found whatever seats we could. I boarded last and somehow got an aisle seat in the back row with no one in the middle seat. They closed the door at 10:10am, but then reopened it and let about 6 more people onto the plane. The middle seat in my row remained open.
The flight was pretty normal. However, when we arrived our bags never appeared on the baggage belt. In fact, a lot of people were missing their bags. Apparently since our bags were 'late checked', this meant it was our fault our bags did not make it to Austin on our plane and hence we had to go back to the airport and retrieve our bags later. Pretty bad, considering that it was really their 85 minute check-in line that caused our bags to be late checked. We arrived at the airport plenty early.
Daniel (a guy on the UT racquetball team who did not go to nationals) came and picked Steven, Greg, Brendan, and me up from the airport. We dropped off Brendan in Riverside and then stopped for food at Popeyes. Then I got dropped off at the parking garage on campus, where I retrieved my car and drove home.
Greg went and picked up all of our bags from the airport later in the evening, and then I retrieved my bag from his west campus apartment around 9pm. It was really nice of him to go get all of our bags from the airport!
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