Adventures Abroad
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Everything was fine until we left Miami. At least we thought it was... Leaving Miami, we let them take our carry-ons down to the "checked baggage." We didn't think anything of it until we landed in Columbia. Once we landed we immediately felt the "third world country syndrom." Everyone was speaking Spanish~the Columbian way. I immediately started asking for our carry-ons while the airport security was funneling us downstairs. We had another international flight which meant we had to go through security again, and check our already secure items. :) We waited and waited, and finally made it through security. Once through security, the only place for us to go was back upstairs, where our next gate was. Dan kept reminding me that we needed our baggage. I kept looking and wondering where they meant we would find it. (I served as the translator for this trip.) Once upstairs, I realized there was no way to walk back downstairs, and we weren't going to get our carry-on baggage. I started asking the Columbian airport personnel until I finally found a lady who had pity on me. She hesitantly walked Dan and I through some doors she probably shouldn't have,(the bright orange vest says you can do anything, right??) and helped us get downstairs where we had to go through the Columbian immigration and customs to go get our carry-ons. We realized we would have to completely leave the airport, and come back in the front door in order to get and keep our carry-ons! Once downstairs, we finally found our carry-ons. However, we didn't find only our carry-ons... ALL our luggage was scattered around the room in the baggage claim! We were shocked! Somewhere between frustration about how in the world we were going to put all our baggage back on the new flight and seeing the just found carry-ons, it hit me like a load of bricks! If we hadn't "lost" our carry-ons, all of our luggage would be stuck in Columbia, and we would have lost ALL of it! God is SO good! He didn't let us lose a single piece! We still had to return upstairs, sign in for our flight, show every kind of proof to the lady at the counter that we had already paid our $360 for luggage (and didn't need to pay again) before being allowed to board our next plane :) The good news is that the next flight went smoothly, and so did getting through customs in Peru! We safely arrived at the country we call our home.
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You made it! The Lord was looking out for you.
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