MERCURY LOUNGE SHOW-TOUR DAY 12

We made our way to the airport with time to spare. I took the liberty of double checking with some employees of the airport about my lost ID & the police report I had on hand to use. seemed all good though.

When we were finally in line to check in, the people who worked there immediately informed us that our flight had been delayed and we wouldn't be in NYC til 4pm. I was a little bummed because we had counted on that extra time in the morning for the band to sleep. Slee is extremely important to this band, esp. since they were still a little jet lagged to begin with. We came up with a new plan to tell the venue the band just wanted to skip sound check and do a line check that night so they could sleep most of the day and perform that evening.

After everyone was good and checked in, we tooled around by the gate for a while. Eventually there was another announcement saying our flight was cancelled, and a long line started forming infront of the gate kiosk for people to change their flights at. We probably ended up waiting in line for a while....I was really bummed about this, since it was the biggest problem that came out of no where yet. I called anothony and jim to let them know what was up, then tried to devise a plan of action while waiting.

My only thoughts were to rent a car and drive to houston to catch our connecting flight to NYC, but I was exhausted, delirious, and it seemed to be a little too late to still catch our connection since it's a 3 hour drive to houston from san ant.

The band was pretty much over it. They said 'it's over mary, it's not your fault, but the tour is over' i think they were just tired and they had a different perception of how the tour was going to be played our then from how it actually ended up being. They just wanted to go home. So they told me I just needed to get them home now.

We convinced anthony there was nothing to be done, which there wasn't. They only later flight to NYC from San Ant. left and 4pm and on top of that it was overbooked and we'd be on standy by. no chance. Then we made arrangements with a stewardess at the kiosk for hotels and a new flight out to NYC the next day.

We got free hotel rooms for each person
Lots of meal vouchers
And 1st class tickets.

After all that, we got our luggage back, went to the hotel, and ate some lunch while we waited to check in at 3.

more trouble arose at our lunch spot, applebees when the waiter was being shady about letting us see how much we owed on the bill after we gave him vouchers. But Isabelle stepped up and totally scared the crap out of the kid, so the bill got fixed.

More waiting occured for our rooms. slowly one by one we got rooms. I was the last.

when I got to my room it was awesome. But i was kinda shaky at this point, and sooo tired that my body had trouble actually sleeping, which i'm sure makes no sense.

TBA