Arduous Journey

I kinda guessed this journey might be off to an interesting adventure when our first flight was canceled before we even got to Minnesota. Thankfully American was nice and got us rescheduled on a 0705 flight. So, at 0400 this morning we woke up and had an amazing fresh coffee cake compliments of Jason (Hailey's stepdad). At the airport we were lucky enough to run in Kris Jetzer who got us amazing seats on our first flight. After a nice 1 hour and 49 minute nap - we landed in Dallas and spent the next 3 hours walking around. On the bright side - the bar at Bennigan's was showing the Badger game, so we got to see the game up until half time. The flight from Dallas to Belize City was delayed about 15 minutes because it was being inspected by "security". Once in the air we were excited again to be leaving the country. Touching down in Belize it was a blamy 78 degrees farenheit (I need to work on my ability to convert from celsius...). Once through the ridiculous clulster that was immigration and customs we stood in line for at least 45 minutes waiting at the Tropic Air counter to get our flight to Punta Gorda. There was this one guy working the counter who was extremely nice and helpful. He took our bags, helped us get our flight - really took care of us. After all this waiting, it started down-pouring and our plane decided not to come to the airport... So with some help from the extremely nice staff we ran into another student headed to the clinic too (I'm actually sitting in the hotel talking with him and Hailey). We got a ride to the Global Village Hotel in Belize City where the staff was also extremely helpful and got us into the hotel safely. With the free internet up and running, Hailey and I headed out in search of dinner. Attempting not to get run over (Belize has no sidewalks) and avoiding the hooligans at the local bar, we ducked into a chinese restaurant about a block from the hotel. There was ordered our food and had our first Belikens (Belizean beer). Also got to see our first lizard on the wall there. Walked back to the hotel again trying not to get run over and ran into some people we had met at the Belize International Airport. First thing she said, "Where'd you get the beer?". The entire hotel lobby is full of people we met at the airport who also had their flights canceled. So we ate dinner with them. Now we've been chilling in the hotel talking with the other student. We've got a flight to Punta Gorda in the morning - 1030 and will hopefully not have any further troubles. It's been a very interesting trip so far and we're only on the first day. I can't wait for the rest.