La Costena's plane this time was one of its largest. Couldn't see the pilots, we even had beverage service. Arrived in Managua 3 hours before we needed to leave. This was the only flight from Managua to Houston today and since we were so early, the check-in desk was not manned. We waited in line for 34-45 min and checked our luggage in. At that time, we were told that the plane would be leaving 1 hour later than scheduled. We walked across the street to the Best Western breakfast buffet and enjoyed being with our Virginia partners for the last time in a year. As we got back to the airport to go through security, we were told that our flight was expected to be 2 hours late. We were scheduled to have a 3 hour layover in Houston, so we thought we could squeak through and make our flight to DFW. We waited for awhile upstairs after clearing security and saw on the arrivals board that our flight was 4 hours late and ,of course, there would be no way to make that flight. Harry talked to an airline employee and got us changed to a later flight which we could barely make if we ran.
We flew from Managua to Houston finally and had to pick up bags, go thru customs, give bags back, go thru security, get new boarding passes for our new flight and high tail it to Gate E30. When we got there with our new boarding passes, they were cancelled because the airline/computer didn't think we'd make the flight. The wonderful lady working the gate, reinstated our reservations and gave us better seats. We made it on the flight with maybe 5 minutes to spare. Y E A!
Home --Nick picked Harry and me up and we got on the road. Tons of traffic- maybe because of the baseball game maybe not-- anyway we landed at our house at midnight.
The end to a very productive mission trip.
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