We finally arrived home safe and sound after an entire day of traveling...literally. We left the apartment at 3:30 am and did not arrive in NY until approximately 10:40pm and then had to wait for our luggage.
Of course, our trip home did not happen uneventfully...we had to go through countless number of security checks, bag checks, passport checks, numerous questions of why we were in Colombia....and of course I almost got in trouble for overextending my stay in Colombia. We found this out when we tried to go through emigration. Apparently when we arrived in Colombia, the immigration official put the wrong number of days that I was going to be in the country. He wrote down that I would be there for 30 days instead of the 56 that I told him. This caused a commotion when I tried to leave...luckily Tanya's passport had the appropriate number of days written in it, we had our original travel itineraries, and there was a super nice man who spoke English that could explain the situation to the emigration official. After some discussions amongst themselves, we were finally given permission to leave. Phew!! I really did not want to be interrogated or detained or whatever happens if you overextend a stay in another country!
Then we had our lovely 7 hour layover in Miami and when we finally boarded the plane, we were informed that a light was burnt out in the console and they had to get maintenance back on the plane to replace it and sign off on it. Tanya and I thought we were never getting home. We just hoped and prayed we wouldn't arrive at JFK and find out our luggage was missing. Luckily all our luggage was accounted for and we finally parted ways...It has been a wonderful 8 weeks. Many thanks to everyone at Gladney and Superkids for allowing us this amazing experience!!!
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