If you've ever seen the reality show "The Amazing Race" then you will be able to understand exactly what my co-worker and I have dealt with in the past 24 hours. Being in another smelly airport--sleep deprived, and growing greasier by the millisecond, I don't know if I really have the energy to describe it in complete detail...
But hey, since i currently find myself sitting and waiting during another 8 hour layover...ooooo, I'm gonna.
So Che' and I were supposed to fly to Egypt yesterday. Somewhere between overestimating the efficiency of this country, and underestimating our own misfortune, we met disaster head on. We arrive at the airport only to be informed that our flight has been canceled, with NO notification. Not delayed, mind you, canceled. There's such finality and doom punched into that little word!
Long story short, we missed our connecting flight causing us to miss our train the next day to Luxor...causing us to earn another day in this country...yipppeeee!!!!
So we spent the next 3 hours in a cramped airline office with some very nice (yet not-so-nice-smelling) men helping us go through about 100 possible situations, all of which were full....yadayadayada...
Thinking we had finally found the solution...we arrived once again at the airport the next morning to learn that our new flight had been delayed due to bad weather...causing us to once again miss our connecting flight and later train...
The truth is, I've never laughed SO much in my life! It's just testimony to the craziness and uncertainty of this place. If one thing is for sure, it's that God is most definitely teaching me to roll with the punches!!!
But (enshahallah) you'll hear from me in a week with a full report on Mama Egypt and all her glory. In the meantime, word to wise...never travel without wetwipes!!!
