I am sitting in the Miami airport. My flight to KC is on a delay. They are hoping to have me out of here by 10:15. We shall see if that happens.
Happy birthday to my son Jason. I’m sorry I have to miss his birthday this year. I’ll have to catch up with him later this week to celebrate.
United ended up cancelling my flight late last night. I couldn’t rebook until they did that. Nicole looked up some options for me and messaged them to me.
I’m not sure how I am going to get reimbursed for the cancelled flight. I booked through Priceline. They are telling me the refund will come from United and United is telling me the refund will come from Priceline. I’ll figure all that out another day. The flight that United moved me to got cancelled this evening too so I am grateful I found a different airline and option.
There was a Southwest flight that I booked but when I double checked it afterwards, realized I had booked it for leaving from Puerto Rica instead of Costa Rica. The airport code is one letter different. Ooops! Luckily I was able to cancel it and got my money back. Grateful I discovered it before I showed up at the airport this morning and I couldn’t get home.
I then booked an American flight that connects through Miami. Doesn’t feel like a very direct way to get home but it will get me there – sooner or later. The flight from Costa Rica to Miami left on time and arrived on time. We hit turbulence again but only once. The flight attendants were doing the beverage service when it hit and had to suspend it for a bit.
Immigration line wasn’t too bad. The Customs line was long but they rerouted us to a line that felt like it was a mile away and that line went fairly quickly once I got there. The lady at the security line was cranky. She was tired of telling people that the bins were only for loose items and not to put your back pack in them. Most all other security lines want you to put your back pack in a bin.
I got patted down when I went through security. I forgot and used baby powder this morning and the detector always picks that up. She patted me down and released me and off I went. They didn’t open my bags.
I had dinner at a TG Friday. It was OK. They at least had iced tea! I wanted to get one to go but the waiter was really busy and I didn’t ask for one. I had stopped at a Peet’s Coffee place to get one but they gave me iced coffee – yuck!
I still have two hours to wait until my flight departs, if it arrives as they think it might. I won’t get into KC until close to 1:00 now. I will see how tired I am. I may end up getting a room and not driving home tonight. I would like to make it home tonight but not sure I will be able to stay awake to drive.
This trip has been unusually full of unexpected adventures. I will certainly remember this trip for a long time for many different reasons.
It will be good to get home – sooner or later. Grateful that I will have a rest and recovery day tomorrow with nothing on my calendar. It is going to take me a day or two to get all the way home – mentally, spiritually and physically.
Grateful one flight is done and only one more to go, grateful I found iced tea for dinner, and grateful I am almost home.