March 7th -- the itinerary was this ..... head out for Syracuse from Elmira at 2 AM to catch a 6 AM flight to JFK. And then head from JFK to Port Au Prince, Haiti at 8:30.
Well, the good weather of NY state had something different to say about that! We left Elmira at midnight and drove through a blizzard VERY SLOWLY all the way to Syracuse. Upon arriving in SYR at 4:30 our flight was still set to leave at 6 AM. GREAT!!
Around 5:30, when we should have been boarding our plane to leave SYR we find out several things are going wrong with getting the plane ready ..... the maintenance men are stuck somewhere outside in the snow, then when they did get there they decided to get a plane that was set to leave at 6:30 AM ready before our plane. Ahhh!
So, because our 6 AM flight didn't end up leaving till 9:30 we missed our flight out of JFK to PAP and it isn't everyday that you can get to PAP. =( So, the airline rerouted us to MIA and we had to stay in a hotel that night and proceed from MIA to PAP on March 8th.
March 8th --- 4:45 AM - wake up to be ready to go to the airport at 5:30 to catch our 8 AM flight out of MIA to PAP!
Upon arriving at the airport we find out that our reservations were not in the computer ..... can you say "get behind me satan?" So, Christina and I just start singing, right there in the airport ..... "I Walk By Faith!" It wasn't long before they found our reservation (around 7 AM) and finally located our checked bags (that had come in the night before on some plane) so they could board them onto the plane.
FINALLY -- around 10:30 AM we land in Haiti and by 12:30 PM we are greeted by 10 beautiful brown-haired children that were so bummed that we hadn't made it the day before but SO excited to see us when we finally arrived!!!
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