My first day as a world traveler

First off, instead of Miraflores, Lima, Peru, I'm stuck in Houston, Texas, USA

My day started at 4:40 am when I got up to start my adventure. The drive to Dallas went smoothly and we arrived in plenty of time for our 11:40 flight to Houston. As soon as we(we as in Cornforth, Ryne, Julie, Wes, and I) arrived, we heard of flight delays from Houston because of weather, and found out that our departure wasn’t going to be until around 1:40. We also found out that Dr. Plumb and Corey were still in Dallas because of flight delays, and their planned departure was 10:30. The other two, Heather and Debra, made it out of Dallas without any delays around 8 this morning. So we walked and ate and waited and waited and finally got onto the plane around 2:30ish. (Dr. Plumb and Corey got on theirs around1:30) So after getting on our plane, we don’t actually take off until about an hour later because of the fact that the Dallas airport is retarded and only had 2 out of 8 runways open.

And then comes Jordan’s first flight.

I sat next to a really old lady with paper thin skin who was very overdone. She had huge rings and earrings and a jeweled bag. Don’t let me forget about her false eyelashes. But she was nice, nevertheless. The flight was okay. Nothing too amazing, but I wasn’t terrified or anything. We were kept in a holding pattern for about 20 minutes because of continuous bad weather in Houston. We arrived in Houston around 4:30 (our flight out of Houston was scheduled for 3:55) When we land I talk to Cornforth and find out that our flight was boarding, because they had been “unofficially waiting” for us. So first off the people won’t let us off of the plane because all of the bags have to get off first, so we wait and wait and then we run.

And run.

And run.

I'm talking sweating here.

All the way across the Houston airport only to find out that our flight is gone.

Gone.

G O N E.

We go to Customer service to find out that there are no more flights tonight. We got hotel and meal vouchers for the night. Luckily our luggage was still here and as I type we are waiting to retrieve it, (although I have no need for mine because of the wonderful advice of Beth Ward and my extra set of clothes in my carry on)

So anyways, as soon as I get to the hotel I will post this into my blog and hopefully I can talk to some of you guys or something.

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