It's the journey, not the destination

Saturday's trip recap:

I should have known that my fairly decent travel record was going downhill with all that happened during last weekend's trip. However, I am learning the hard way that things don't always go according to plan.

My body of evidence:
1) The flight out of Austin yesterday was delayed because on its way into Austin, the plane was struck by lightning. According to the crew, they needed to patch some holes. Yeah, that's a great start.
2) We wound up leaving Austin 2 hours later than expected, which pretty much ate up our layover time in Dallas.
3) We arrived in Dallas 15 minutes before our flight was supposed to leave. However, the plane at the gate we were supposed to park at was having mechanical difficulties, so we sat on the runway for a good hour. We watched our other plane take off without us.
4) Our luggage is missing in action, but they've told us that it'll be on the flight with us. Yeah, I buy that.
5) During our time in Dallas, the temperature dropped about 20 degrees. Again, we're prepared for a South American summer here, not the Texas winter storm of the century. Cold? A little.
6) About 1/2 of the flights out of DFW have been cancelled today. We're hoping ours is among those that isn't cancelled. But we have no idea...our hotel reservations are good until 6PM, but the flight doesn't leave until 7:45. Nice timing, eh?

The bonuses so far:
1) The airline determined that we missed our flight because of "mechanical difficulties" so they put us up in a hotel for the evening.
2) We were rebooked on the flight for Saturday, and the only 2 seats left were in business class. Bummer :)
3) Because we're on business class for an international flight, we were autotmatically granted entry into the Admiral's club. Posh.

So here we wait in Dallas. For ~4 hours so far, and about 3 more to go. We're crossing our fingers that we get to leave tonight. If we don't, then we'll try again tomorrow. But the weather is supposed to get significantly worse tomorrow through Monday. So who knows. I may get a little used to the Admiral's club...

Editor's note: Internet Explorer thinks that I'm writing this in Portuguese, so every word shows up on spell check. Please pardon any errors...I'll see what I can do to get this fixed...