Off to a great start...

Ya, not so much. I think aside from our plane crashing everything that could have gone wrong has. Let me start at the beginning. We woke up at 3 am this morning and headed to the airport and actually didn't have any problems there. We boarded our plane at about 5:30 am and then sat there for about 2 hours, for reasons we still do not know. So around 7:30 am we took off which was an hour and a half later than we were supposed to leave. This was a little nerve racking considering our layover in Miami was only an hour and 35 minutes...but the pilot said we would be flying a little faster to make up some of the lost time so we felt ok about it. So we land in Miami at 10:40 am (Miami time) and we are still thinking we can make our 11:05 flight to St. Kitts (which is the only flight there of the day), but by the time we get to the gate and got off the plane (man people are slow at that) our flight was gone. For some irritating reason they decided to leave early instead of waiting 5 short minutes for us to run and make our connection. So there we are stuck at the Miami airport.

We go to the AA customer service desk to get it straightened out and find out that we would be spending the night in Miami because like I said before there is only one flight each day to St. Kitts. AA did pay for our hotel (which is in the shadiest part of town ever) and paid for our lunch, dinner, and breakfast. But that still doesn't make up for our lost day on the beach.

Now you might be thinking what else can go wrong...well after we got our tickets sorted out we head down to get our bags so we can go check in to our hotel. And what do you know...they are no where to be found. We ask a desk worker who sends us to talk to another desk worker who sends us upstairs to talk to a supervisor who apparently doesn't exist and then we are told to go back downstairs where the lady then tells us to wait at carousel 25. We still aren't sure what we were going to be waiting for at carousel 25 because our flight had landed over 3 hours prior to this conversation and we were pretty sure our bags weren't just going to magically appear there. So we are hoping that somehow they end up in St. Kitts tomorrow when we do...but we shall see.

Ok so now that we have done what we can with the bags we check-in to our hotel which goes surprisingly smooth and have a little lunch. Then we decide to rent a car and go to an outlet mall since we have most of the day to kill in Miami. We rent the car which is way overpriced and head out to the mall. Once we get to the mall we are literally verbally assaulted in the parking lot by a jewish man (he was wearing a yamaka sp???) who seemed to think we were stealing his parking spot which he had completely driven past and then once we started to turn into he decided he wanted and started backing up. He then got out of his car and started cussing at us about taking the parking spot. So needless to say we backed up and found somewhere to park on the other side of the mall.

Whew, talk about a rough day. Now we are back at our hotel though and ready to go to bed and just completely forget about this day!! Hopefully tomorrow will be much better and we will arrive in St. Kitts with our bags and will enjoy what is left of our trip.