Amazing Race Style

Hello!!!
Well this is our first post of our trip to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands and well we aren't in Ecuador yet.. ha-ha.

Yesterday we woke up at 3:00am to get to Edmonton Airport by 4:00am. Tyson drove us down and then got a Taxi at a crazy rate of 17.50 for a 5 minute drive from Leduc to the airport. Tyson only had 13.00 dollars and said this is all i have take it or leave it and the guy took it.. but that seems like a crazy rate!!! Anyways our plane was supposed to take off at 6:10am to Salt Lake City, Utah and we were all ready to go except they questioned Tyson and I on why we had so many stamps and visas in our passport and they asked me if i travelled alot for "buisness" to which I replied.. no I am a school health facilitator and he just looked at me like i had 3 eyes... The plane could not leave because there was too much fog in Edmonton.. by "too much" we mean "barely". So we sat on the plane for an hour and a half and couldn't go anywhere with a screaming baby behind us.. not cool!

We finally took off at 7:30 am and got to Salt Lake City at 9:45... we were off the plane by 9:47 and we booked it to gate c6 where our connecting flight to Atlanta was. We ran like amazing race style.. seriously our lungs were burning and people were staring at us... but when Tyson got to C6... Sara kept going to C9... they had just closed the gate and said nope sorry we can't let you on. We were peed -off but what really happened was that stand by took our 4 seats because we weren't there .So we there was no more room anyways. We sat and watched the plane on the tarmac for 30 or so minutes. It was so hard to see, and Marilyn was not impressed that the plane was still sitting there probably with our bags getting loaded. The people at Delta have been understanding though. The lady we spoke to was trying her hardest to find a way we could get to Ecuador today but there is only one flight a day so that wasn't going to work but she wanted to get us to Atlanta so at least we would be there for tomorrow's flight to Ecuador. However the people beside us also missed thier flight (same flight) but they had a Galapagos Cruise that was starting Sunday (today) ... they now have to miss a day or two of thier cruise and hopefuly be able to find it which sucks even more! Anyways we got on a flight to Jackson hole, Wyonming (sp??) what a hole that place is.. well really its just a big skiing resort and the US people think its the nicest spot in America... it wasn't terrible but the airport was tiny with no food and we were hungry. Oh the lady at Delta got us on first class to Jackson hole and first class to Atlanta with breakfast, lunch, and dinner vouchers and hotel voucher so we were taking good care of. We waited 2 hours in Jackson hole to our conncecting flight to Atlanta. There was an incident on the run way at Jackson hole (nothing to do with our plane) but we had to wait 30 minutes on that plane before we got the go ahead to taxi and take off to Atlanta... they almost shut down the run way over night (we would have been stuck in Jackson hole!!!). Anyways we got into Atlanta at 8:30pm and got our hotel vouches and dinner and breakfast vouchers as well as an overnight kit as our bags are in Atlanta but they stay in the International space and then get on our plane to Ecuador when we leave. We still need to confirm of this.

Atlanta is big, with a nice southern bell feel. Ha-ha! We tried to get free tickets to March Madness but the Delta airline people weren't buying our bid. Its warm here, there are flowers and green grass.. shocking! And the avacado tastes delicious! It really did feel like the amazing race yesterday and Tyson and I have no questions that we would have totally been top 2 teams racing to get onto the connecting flight (i am sure if it was the actual amazing race they would have let us on!)

Thats all for now... going to go eat a southern breakfast.. mmmmm grease. Hopefully tomorrow you will hear from us in Ecuador!!!!

Adios...

Sara and Tyson