It all started off great. we arrived at the airport earlier than schedule and we were all set to jet off to puerto vallarta. we should have known there'd be trouble when things started going less than perfectly from there. nothing disastrous, of course, but little things, when given the opportunity to go wrong, they did. first, when we tried to check in at the kiosk, everyone's passports went through the reader without any problems...everyone, that is, except for Leena. for some reason the card reader didn't recognize her passport. so we shook it off and stood in the regular check-in line. dozens of minutes later we finally got to the front of the line. we got our boarding passes and were on our way to the security line when we noticed that we were missing a boarding pass for Leena. So...back to the check-in agent. Now we're ready to go! So we're standing in the security line, when the agent comes over and asks of any of our boarding passes are marked "SSSS". Sure enough, one of ours was. Guess who....Leena. And so Leena was exiled to the "extra" security line along with some 90 year old woman and her 100 year old husband. It would be a long time before we'd see Leena again, but at least *then* we'd be on our way.
Aaah, but this trip would not be so easy. United Airlines decided to downgrade the plane so 27 passengers (including us) were out of luck. Uh-oh. So, here it was, 9:30 am, an hour and a half before our scheduled flight, and we had no seats. The next thing we knew, the hours were passing by, and we were at the mercy of Mr. Phillips at the United counter. He scheduled us on a 7pm flight to Phoenix, where we'd have to stay overnight, and then fly out the next morning to PV. So this is how our day went, 9am to 7pm we sat and sat and sat...
Finally around 10:30pm we landed in Phoenix with no luggage, no toothbrushes, and no idea that our bad luck would follow us to the next day.
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