Ok so I'm sure many of you realize that we have yet to arrive home...but we are getting closer with each passing minute. We started our journey at 4 am Saturday morning when we left Cloisters...without sleeping any Friday night. We arrive at the airport in Montgo Bay at 5:30 only to find that after everyone is through security our flight has been delayed by an hour, and then and hour and a half. Finally we board our plane and flew to Miami for which should have been a short layover.
We made out and in of customs and then began the search for lunch in the Miami airport. After some amazing American food we met back at our terminal ready for take off only to learn our flight has been delayed for 30 minutes. That was fine, we are flexible. Then an hour, a little frustrating but we figured we would still be ok. Then we made a a new best friend with the agent at our terminal desk who gave us constant updates. At first the weather was bad and take off time was pushed back to 4:30. Our friend informed us that the weather was going to continue to worsen and they began looking for a new plane and pilot to help us get back home. We soon realized that this chance was very slim. Doug walked back from the departure board with tear in his eye, the board informed us our flight had been cancelled. The back up flight they had found us for that night was having extreme mechanical problems and we come to find out that our new Pilot is sick. We sent Sass to save the day at the ticket counter, only to find that the next flight to RDU was on Monday or Tuesday. We began to explore our other options only to find that the Amtrac (sorry about the spelling)is booked till Monday. Then we begin to explore the idea of flying into other cities, or maybe just walking home from Miami. We recieve a text from Sass "My phone is dying but I have it figured out." This was the best news we had heard in a long time. We were told that we would recieve a 10 dollar dinner voucher to eat in the airport and then would fly into Dulles on an 8:30 flight. We were planning on renting vans and driving back to Raleigh in the morning. Well to put the icing on the cake we couldn't rent vans from anywhere in DC. And in case we wanted any more surprises our flight was then delayed several times until we finally took off at 10:30. We all finally made it to our hotel by 3 a.m. and are now getting on vans to raleigh. Yeah! The crazy travel day! See you soon.
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