My not so great trip back

The trip started out reasonable enough. The flight out of Buffalo was good. It started rather humorously with the little boy beside me. His mother gave him some gum and told him to chew it for his ears. He chewed it all right. Then he put it in his ears! I could hear him asking his father all perplexed, 'why does mommy want me to put gum in my ears?' His poor father had a really hard time containing the laughter.

We landed OK in New York City. I will tell you that the JFK airport leaves alot to be desired. It is not the easiest airport to navigate. Either way I went through security and made my way to my gate. I got some food and tried my best to entertain myself for my 3 hour layover. Then I noticed that we were boarding and got all the way up to the check in point and the girl says that I needed to go back through security. I was mortified! So as the plane was finishing up boarding I had to run back through the sprawling airport to find someone at the security check point to punch two holes in my boarding pass. Luckily I made it and got on the flight.

We were off for Miami. A couple of hours later we touched down, and I was happy to. Until I got my headphones off and realized that we had touched down in West Palm Beach. It seems that there was some pretty bad weather in Miami and they had closed the airport to all traffic until the weather passed. Eventually we fueled up and were allowed off the plane to get some food, after sitting there for almost three hours. Which wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't for the Bitch behind me that would not stop complaining. Either way we managed to get out and make the 16 minute flight to Miami.

I thought that I would be nice and just let others get off the plane, because I was sure that all our connections were lost at this point. So I figured there was no point in being pushy like everyone else. I sat back and let the majority of the plane empty which took about 10-15 minutes as it was a large plane. Once I got going and looked at my boarding pass I realized that there was a very slim chance that I could catch my original flight. I was supposed to depart at 5:55 and it was not 6:05, but the updated board showed it delayed until 6:15. So I ran, and I ran, and I ran. Did I mention how big the Miami airport is. And I ran. I made it to the gate at 6:20. The plane had departed.

At this point my only option was to rebook for this morning and take the free meals and hotel room that American Airlines was offering me.

I made my way back to the Miami airport this morning only to find out that I had been chosen for secondary screening. Great. Of course I left myself a few hours of extra time. So it was really no big deal to go through the little chamber that checks to see if you have any explosive residue on and have all my stuff swiped for explosives.

After all that the flight to Grand Cayman was really no big deal.