It was a day for delays and bad weather. The Cincinnati group and I were 2.5 hours delayed, Ms. Molly was totally rerouted and Brett got caught in Chicago, arriving too late to Atlanta to fly on with the group. Our wonderful Meet and Greet team will meeting him in Atlanta where he will spend the night and join our delegation the following day. We arrive in Ecuador, and security is somewhat laxed. We get through customs, then immagration as as we are leaving with our screened baggage, on3 zealous worker decides to stop all Aericans and double check their luggage claim tickets. Luckily only one was missing. When the entire group got through and Riley was stopped, I frantically hunted through all my paperwork to find the missing baggage claim. He was NOT going to let her luggage go through without it. When he was distracted, we shoved a baggage claim in his hand from another flight (and student) and took off as quickly as we could before he realized the tag and the claim ticket didn’t match. Wow! Close call.!
We made it to the outside where we found Madeline waiting. She lost track of the group, and did what you are suppose to do when the group gets lost. Stay put. We joined her and waited for Carlos, our wonderful Delegation Manager (DM) to return and get us. He walked us to our bus where we met Marco our driver. It was just a short ride to the hotel. We had a little confusion at the hotel, since they had Sloan’s name on the roster as being male – we juggled around the rooms, and got everyone finally in theirs by midnight. Christina had a bumpy plane ride, and ride to the hotel. Once we got her settled in a room with Lucia and Lexie, she was able to settle her stomach and get some sleep. All is well.
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