September 15 is Guatemala's Independence Day which means that we had the day off of school! As I am sitting in our apartment relaxing, Dustin walks in and says "have you blogged since we have been here?" And so I immediately logged in and will be trying to update you all on a month of wonderful experiences. Hopefully this will get me back in gear to write more often as I thoroughly enjoy describing what is happening with us here in Xela.
Our Guatemalan adventure began with us at the OKC airport. We were excited and slightly nervous as one would expect to be departing on this adventure. We step up to the American Airlines service desk to check in only to find that the information that we had gotten over the phone from American 4 months earlier was inaccurate and we were NOT permitted to pay for an extra bag when flying to Guatemala. We soon learned that Guatemala had an embargo restriction during the summer months secondary to increased travel. I thought to myself...increased travel to Guatemala? Surely not, however, it was true and I immediately burst into tears (as I often do in extremely stressful and emotional situations) this emotional outburst just happenened to be in front of hundreds of travelers anxiously awaiting to arrive at their destination of choice. And then, a saint appeared. A gentleman who worked in the American luggage department asked us to meet him in the baggage claim. Thirty minutes later he had converted six bags into four checked bags and two carry-ons. In my mind this man will live forever as a hero for if not for him we would be prancing around Xela in who knows what.....
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