Tartan Ted's travels continued again ...

Part 3 - Houston to Corpus Christi:

... the power on the train cut and we were left wondering if it might be quicker to walk.
Eventually the air and the lights came back on and off we went to Terminal B still with plenty of time in hand. We were met off the train by an official who redirected us to a new gate for our flight but, to cut a long story short, this turned out to be cancelled. The departure boards continued to declare our flight to be "on time" for about another 30 minutes but we knew better. The airport was in chaos and we had to join a queue for reticketing and that took us over an hour to reach the front. The result: we were on standby for the 9.20pm to Corpus AND the 10.20 to Corpus. All we could do was sit around and hope. I registered our presence with the gate agent and he said it was very likely he could get us on the 9.20 flight. At 9.20 he announced that there was a plane at the gate and there was a crew in the airport, he just didn't know where they were but he would board the plane as soon as they turned up. The flight time was changed to 10pm. After the crew had arrived, to cheering from the assembled passengers, it was announced that the flight would board and that some standby passengers had already been allocated seats but everyone else should not panic as he still had other places to allocate. We were not included in the first allocation and Mrs Ted had reconciled herself to going on the later flight when the gate agent picked up the PA and announced eight names, one after the other, "if you are in the terminal come to the gate for boarding or you will be unloaded from the flight and lose your ticket ... NOW" and put the PA phone down. He then tapped on his computer and announced "Tartan Ted and family". Hooray, Christmas has come early we all responded and got on the plane before anyone turned up to complain about losing their seats!
The kids slept through the one hour flight; Little Ted had to be carried off the flight but Eddy bounced through the airport until she saw her grandmommy waiting and then ran, in true movie reunion style, into her grandmommys arms. Little Ted needed a nights sleep before he was able to enthuse about our arrival in Texas.
The really remarkable thing about all this is that our baggage was first off the plane at Corpus and as we were loading the van outside the airport we heard an announcement telling people who were missing luggage that it would come off the next plane from Houston! We left for Rockport mightily relieved to have all our belongings intact.