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Dawson and Julie at the airport awaiting Ross and Blake |
Dawson enjoys the first part of the day reading for the morning in the cockpit. The weather is beautiful and Julie tackles the stainless. With toothpaste and brush in hand, all the stainless is brushed to remove salt and the start of rust, then it gets rinsed and then a cleaner, protector, polisher is applied. This takes quite a while and is backbreaking as some of the stainless is in awkward spots.
Once the boat is cleaned, we head off to the airport. We are going early as we are walking the 5kms. and we are not sure how long it will take, and we also want to get our immigration papers extended. We have only been granted a 90 day visit so had been told we need to go to immigration to request a longer time period. We are not sure how long this will take so we head out at 2:00. The walk to the airport goes quickly and we are there by 3:00. There was nothing interesting along the way to cause any delay. We find out where immigration is and they tell us we have to go to the immigration office in town which will be open on Monday. Oh well, guess we should have enquired earlier. It is now 3:30 and over an hour until the flight comes in. We buy a cold drink and settle in for the wait. Finally it is 4:40, the time of expected arrival, but the plane does not come. After about 10 more minutes Julie checks the ipad and sure enough Ross has let us know that his plane is late and leaving at 5:10 (30 minutes after he was supposed to arrive). A 5:10 plane gets him in about 6pm. Unfortunate as now he will be a night flight versus a day flight and will not be able to see the beautiful views. Oh well nothing to be done about it. Finally 6 arrives and the plane arrives also. We see Ross get off the plane, but no Blake. Ross explains that Blake is 45 minutes behind him as there was a mix up on Blake's ticket and he had to buy a flight from another company as Sky Bahamas said he was not booked on the same flight as Ross even though he had a confirmation number and the paperwork to go with it. We are a bit concerned but wait for 30 minutes. Julie checks with the airline to be told there ahas been a couple hour delay. We decide to head back to the boat with Ross to drop his luggage and get some food. We had hoped to have a special birthday/welcome dinner however it was not meant to be.
Blake emails to inform us there have been even further delays. The flight now is leaving at 9pm. We ask him to text us once he is boarding the plane, as Ross and Dawson will head back to meet up with him at the airport. Finally we get word the plane is leaving and within the hour, Blake is on board the boat with stories of horrible lightening and winds that he thought were going to send the plane hurtling to the ground.
We are thrilled the young men have made it safely, but what a lot of unnecessary stress and expense.
Cheers
Julie and Dawson
Wow. How traumatizing for Blake.
ReplyDeleteBoth of your tans make me long for the sun.