Subscribe to our RSS FeedAfter nearly 24 hours of traveling, I made it to the temporary condo in Buenos Aires yesterday. I left for the 4:30pm flight out of JFK at around noon on Tuesday making sure to give myself enough time to check the extra luggage and make sure I got through security with a carry-on full of electronics and Delilah. By 1:30pm, I was already at the gate! There was no traffic, no lines, and no issues. I boarded the plane on time and started to taxi for takeoff. Ahhh…I’m on my way…I’ll have no problem with the hour and a half layover in Atlanta to catch our connecting flight to BsAs.
Four hours later and I’m still sitting on the tarmac at JFK. The Atlanta airport had closed because of storms and we were waiting for it to re-open. Ughh. Delilah had been very well behaved on her first flight, but was growing restless. The lunch we had that was supposed to take us through dinner was long gone. They did offer us free headsets and a free movie – Fool’s Gold with Matthew McConaughey. Ughh, again. I was pretty sure I was going to miss the connection and end up spending the night in Atlanta.
Luckily, the weather cleared and we finally took off. Since the problems were in Atlanta it turned out that all the flights were delayed! The flight to BsAs didn’t leave until 11:15pm, so I made it with time to spare. I arrived in BsAs only about 3 hours later than scheduled and caught a private bus (only U$55) that I had reserved to the apartment. I had so many bags I needed a bus since their taxis are pretty small.
I pretty much collapsed when I got in, but I made it safe and sound with Delilah and all the bags. I’ve had a bunch of other excitement already, but that will have to wait for another day…
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Elsie Blondet // Jul 31, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Congrats guys…. Can’t wait to hear what you will tell us about the city!
2 robyn // Jul 31, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Temp housing? I didn’t realize you were moving in stages…
3 DaVe // Jul 31, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Our lease was set to start August 1, so we rented a temporary apartment for 2 nights. However, this is a whole other blog post now… Watch for it to come.
4 Erika // Jul 31, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Welcome to Buenos Aires:)
5 Finding an Apartment // Aug 4, 2008 at 10:18 pm
[...] two days. I figure that would give us a chance to see the apartment first before moving in. When we finally arrived on June 30, we went to see the apartment that afternoon and meet the owner, who had been very [...]
6 Lilly Darnell // Sep 16, 2008 at 11:37 pm
WHAT!?! WHAT!?!? I had to go through 3 hours of hell at EZE because my dog flew cargo!! it was a paperwork nightmare–nobody speaks English– and she wound up being stuck in her crate for 17 hours! you had it sooo easy b/c Delialah’s small enough to fly on board the plane.
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