We were up, bags packed and ready for breakfast by 7:30 am. When we arrived at the hotel lobby the woman at the desk informed us that our plane was not coming.
Not Coming!!!!!! What the heck was she talking about. She went on to explain that we would not be leaving the island as planned because the plane from Papiti did not fly because of the wind so we were here until another plane could come and get us.
We were quite shocked at that but after further questioning the woman told us this type of thing happened a lot lately. Ok then we would be staying for another night. HMMMM – who would pick up that expense.
Ron and I went to tell Kelly and Patrick the news and after breakfast we were given a ride to the airport with bags in hand to find out when the next flight would arrive to get us.
There was a bit of a language barrier but in the end LAN Airline paid for an additional night at our hotel plus a lunch and dinner. We were given boarding passes and some vague info for the following days flight. At the time we were under the impression that our flight was going to leave in the afternoon.
Back at the hotel we settled in for another day on the island. At least we were in a beautiful place and not out in the desert somewhere.
After lunch Ron and I retreated to our room for a well needed nap. Patrick and Kelly went for a two hour walk. Around 3:30 they came to get us to go for another walk with them.
We headed toward the ocean and another moai we could see from our rooms.
It started to pour so we headed back to the hotel. By the time we arrived we were soaked. Getting into a warm shower was a good option.
Later that evening we had our last (hopefully) dinner at the hotel restaurant. It was another wonderful meal.
Kelly and I were discussing the time we were to leave the next day but it seemed vague to me. Back at our room I checked the tickets and noticed that the date was for the 21st not the 22nd. Kelly had come to our room to drop off some ibuprophen and I showed it to her. We both went to the front desk of the hotel and after some discussion, trying to get onto the LAN site on the internet and speaking with other people who would be flying with us we discovered that our plane was leaving at 8:20 am the next morning. We finally did get a confirmation from the front desk people and headed to our rooms to get ready for our 6 am departure from the hotel.
None of us would have been happy if we missed our flight. Hopefully the plane would arrive as scheduled. Kelly had to notify her work she wouldn’t be coming in on Thursday. And we would be missing our flight from Miami to Boston and had no flight booked for Thursday. We decided to try to get a flight when we got into Miami on Thursday morning. We went to bed hoping all would fall into place in the morning.
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