Sometimes you have to leave tropical paradise and you are sad about it but you are excited to get home. Then, sometimes your flight from Costa Rica to Miami is delayed over two hours due to maintenance. Then when you finally get to Miami you have to circle the airport due to weather delays for an hour and a half. Upon landing you find out that the airport is in utter chaos because for two hours that day the airport was closed because of a tornado warning. You find yourself wondering if you’ve ever heard of a tornado in Miami. Then you run through the airport trying to make your flight that leaves in 20 minutes. You race through customs, grab your luggage and then make it to the gate only to find your flight has left you and half of its passengers that have been running alongside you. Still out of breath, you head to the ticket counter to rebook your flight only to find that every other person in the airport has beat you there. So, you get out your tennis shoes from your suitcase as a gift to your feet and you wait. Judging by the length of the line you estimate about three hours of that very waiting. You run to the nearest Starbucks, the only thing that will make your waiting more bearable… well, that and a bunch of beef jerky that you would normally never eat but desperate times call for desperate measures. Thankfully a friend you are with is travel savvy and gets you in to a different line where you are able to rebook and get a hotel, avoiding almost two-thirds of that waiting time. Sadly though, you go outside to find that the last shuttle to the hotel has already left which makes sense considering the way the rest of your day has been going. So, you do the only thing you can do and you hop in a taxi, taking you through the city of Miami, finally crashing in to bed at 12:30 am.
Sometimes life is just crazy and all you can do is just laugh about it. That’s what I’ve been doing for the last 24 hours in this crazy travel saga as I am stranded in Miami until tonight. Good thing my work can be mobile. Right now I am blogging from my Holiday Inn bed as I recover from yesterday and chuckle to myself as I consider the adventures that Mary Fields Photography takes me on. Never a dull moment. As much as it has been a little nutty this week, I am so thankful that my job takes me to beautiful places and I’m even thankful that it takes me on adventures that lead to running through airports and waiting in lines. It all teaches me to be grateful and today…well, today I am grateful for it all.
Here’s to mobile offices in Miami…in Holiday Inns.
Happy Friday!
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