Saturday we were picked up at 5 AM by Barry Gammel (Bless his heart). He was a great chauffer and we arrived at DIA early and got checked in without incident. We arrived in Dallas with a 5 hour layover. It went downhill from there. Just an hour before our flight was due to leave there was a gate change. We had to move from C concourse to D which is on the complete opposite side of the airport. We were told that the airplane was already at the gate so there (in our minds) should be no problem proceeding. However, at 5 PM (when we were due to leave) that maintenance hadn't released the plane to fly yet (obviously not a good sign). We were told that at 5:40 there would be an update on the situation. To fill in the spaces here, we had a scheduled 3 hour layover at Miami, so we figured that even if we left an hour or so late we'd still have plenty of time to make the flight. How naive we were. There were no available replacement planes until one in route from LA arrived and that would be at 8PM. Well, there went our 3 hours. We thought that maybe the plane would wait for us (there were 30 of us trying to catch that plane), but when we finally arrived at Miami at 1AM it had already left.
So, writing this update, we are "stuck" at Miami until 11:30 tonight. American Airlines did put us up in a hotel and provide vouchers for lunch and dinner (that's a whole story in itself). We hope to be in Lima tomorrow morning and get life back on track. Please pray for everything to go as planned tonight and that our luggage will arrive with us since we have nothing but the clothes on our backs.
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