Oh, It's an Adventure for SURE!!!

This morning's travel began as any normal travel day would; Amber and I stayed up half the night packing and finishing last minute errands (we were at Walmart at 1:30 am! And you know how much we HATE Walmart...). When we awoke this morning we showered and became exceedingly excited about our trip and ready to get the show on the road. Amber's mom made us pancakes (heart shaped ones!) and I decided to check my email as we were running a few minutes ahead of schedule.

As I am often noted as anal retentive on checking details and following my usual habits, I decided to log into see our confirmation code/info for our flight. It wasn't until my eyes began to water that I realized that our flight was to arrive in LA at 9:35am not depart. It wasn't until we both realized we were thirty minutes past our flight departure at 7:00 am.

After many tears and fears of having to cancel the trip all together (we were orginally quoted $1350 per person to change the tickets), we have a new flight scheduled for Sunday. Thanks to our lovely mothers, who are scared S$&*less that we aren't going to make it home from South America, we are now fly out of Seattle on Sunday morning and after changing planes, going in and out of security, customs, and hopefully loads of sleep, we will arrive in Santiago on Monday morning at 8:00am. (Please don't feel too badly for us as we have to pay them back for booking the tickets in the first place! But it was definitely not an expense in our budget!!).

Amber's mom tells us that God had a plan for us not to fly out this morning and that He wanted us to wait a few more days before taking this trip. Whether it be God, Alah, Buddha, or Big Bird, there is a definite calm that we both have knowing we are still going to be able to take this amazing adventure together.

I was saddened for a few hours this morning, knowning that I wouldn't be able to attend Ashley's wedding on August 9th (the main reason we set our return date as the 7th!). Now that our schedule is finally set, I will be able to go and I am incredibly excited for it!

Another positive to this unfortunately expensive derailment is that we will be flying out of Quito, Ecuador, versus having to travel the extra 800 miles from Quito back to Lima, Peru, to fly home. We hope that traveling this distance will make up for some of the hundreds of dollars we had to spend today to change our flights/reservations.

We look forward to arriving in Santiago on Monday, and hope the city and country is as friendly as the guy at the Hostel we're staying at (they changed our reservations at the last minute with no extra charges!).

Hasta Pronto!