Curses! Foiled again

Surprise! We are still in Mexico! Things did not go as planned. We got to Guadalajara in good time and all checked in, cleared security and had coffee. Then, just as we were supposed to board at 10:30, they announced a 1.75 hour delay. Apparently, one runway in Mexico City is closed and that makes delays. Not all flights are delayed as an AeroMexico flight to Mexico left on time just a little while after ours. I don’t know if they draw lots to decide. As we had only 2 hours to change to our Toronto flight in Mexico City, I went to see what could be done. We asked about the AeroMexico flight, but the bright young woman said that we would then have to change terminals in Mexico and as that takes over an hour, we would still not make our Toronto flight. After working her terminal, she said that our only alternative to get to Toronto today would be to go to American Airlines to go from Guad to Dallas and on to Toronto. We went down and back to Go (of course we did not collect $200) at the Mexicana check-in counter. After a very long wait, we were finally told that the Guad to Dallas flight was fully booked, so that was out. We have to try it again tomorrow. This time we have to go on the 7:45 a.m. flight leaving the house at 6 a.m.; we do have our boarding passes so checkin should be quicker. Even if that flight is delayed, we have about 5 hours in Mexico City after scheduled arrival to get the flight to Toronto.

Our bags had been brought back and we finally picked them up. As it was after 12 and we were very tired, we went to the restaurant for something to eat. I had barely enough money to pay for lunch and pay for the taxi home. I had calculated how much we needed to go to the airport and then another taxi when we come back; I didn’t want to be carrying much Mexican money around during 3 weeks in Canada. However, I see that that was not such a good idea. One should always have a bit more for the unforeseen. Because we were going to bypass the US, I didn’t bring my American money so the Dallas-Toronto route would have required getting some US money in Dallas from a machine. One of the big reasons for going via Mexicana etc. was to avoid the US. I was beginning to think that God is American (as so many Americans think) and that (s)he was sending a message. Stay tuned for the next episode of Bluenosers in Mexico.