Hook Em' Horns

Well, as we get closer and closer to our trip to Spain. The Texas Longhorns get closer to another National Championship. Since we stomped Missouri this past weekend, and already beat OU, our national championship hopes are looking really good!


But, we do have to play the rest of the Big XII South including 2 more top ten ranked teams (Okie State and Texas Tech) neither of which will be an easy game.

Nevertheless, assuming we win these games and continue on to the Big XII championship and win there, the Longhorns will be headed to another national championship. This poses an interesting, yet exciting, problem for me and Bana.

That game is scheduled for Thrusday January 8th, 2009 in Miami, Florida; only two days before we have to leave for Spain. I start a Spanish language class on the 12th and the flight and travel time up there is a little more than 24 hours. What this means for us is that we will have to leave the States by the 10th in order to get to Spain in time for my class.

Since the game is at night on the 8th, the band will probably fly back to Austin on the night/morning of the 9th/10th. As some of you know, the Band generally takes red eye flights because they're cheaper. Typically, we don't leave the airport until 11PM and don't get back to Austin until the early hours of the morning. Right now, Bana and I plan on flying out of Houston on the 10th. This means we'll have to drive to Dayton (Bana's hometown) as soon as we get back to Austin so that her parents can take us to the airport, and then turn right around and get on a 17hr plan ride to Germany and then another 4 hrs to Spain. WHEW!!

But, again, this is all contingent upon the horns winning out, which I think most people would agree will be an amazing feat. Honestly, I don't think anyone can stop us (Sorry Dad, Sorry Kearci), but anything is possible and you have to play every game.

So, that's the latest new development. Plane tickets are still around $400-500 for students, which is really nice, and we can put off buying tickets for as long as possible to see how everything develops.

We're also keeping a close eye on the Exchange rates (Bana keeps hoping we'll get lucky and the Dollar will be worth more than the Euro). Latest update from today is 1.33 USD/1 EUR. Let's hope it keeps going down!