Day 7/8:
All great things must come to an end and such is true of our wonderful vacation!
Today is the day we head for home. We leave for the airport at a little after 9am so we can catch our 11:45 am flight. Of course, if you have been following this blog you know that nothing has gone off without a hitch!
When we arrive at the airport we find out that our flight has been delayed until 1:20pm. That, of course, is only the beginning. Since our flight is being delayed on take off we will now miss our connecting flight in Miami. The attendant at american airlines switches our flight to am 8am flight on Thursday (we are leaving Costa Rica on Wednesday) and says that American will put us up in a hotel for the night, give us a meal, and provide transportation to and from the airport to the hotel. He had previously tried twice to book us on a flight late wednesday night at 9:55pm but is unable to do so. Everytime he clicks to take the seats they disappear.
We get the new tickets and head out to manuever our way through customs. Once we settle in and start to wait for our plane...the delays begin. We finally get ready to board the plane at a little before 3pm. We were allowed to take our water with us through customs but once we go to get on the bus to take us out to the plane on the runway, we have to get rid of it. They search our carry on luggage before they allow us to board the bus then they take us out to the plane. When we exit the bus there are several airline employees waiting for us to disembark so they can pat us down. There are seperate lines for men and woman to go through. Once we have been searched we are allowed to board the plane.
The movie showing from Costa Rica to Miami is "Up In The Air" which was absolutely horrible. I have no idea why anyone would want to see that movie! Sorry if you actually enjoyed it....
We arrive in Miami a little after 7pm and once we get through customs and find our luggage we head to american Airlines desk to try and catch that 9:55pm. We were joking with the counter attendant about how the attendant in Cost Rica said she would put us up for the night, that we had our bathing suits with us so we hoped she had a pool, and asking what time we needed to pick her up from work and suddenly she was giving us our boarding passes for the 9:55pm flight. Coincidence???
We boarded the plane and headed to Washington Dc where we warrived at a little at 12am. We left the airport in our car just before 1am and arrived back in Stoystown at 4:30am where we managed to quickly head to bed.
The trip was amazing and we were very sad to be leaving. We are very excited about our return to the wonderful country of Costa Riica and can't wait to start our new life there in June!
We are happy to be back and look forward to seeing all of our friends.
We really enjoyed keeping a blog of our trip and we hope you enjoyed reading about it as much as we enjoyed talking about it!
Take Care!
Patti, Bob, and Jacob
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