A REAL TRIP HOME

We are back in school again, trying to catch up on what we missed in one week. It is amazing how much grammar that was covered in 7 days. We just have to share our story with you of our trip home. Our original flight was scheduled for 2 pm on Sunday. We arrived at the airport in Memphis at 11:30 am. We were told that our flight was going to be delayed, but they could put us on an earlier flight at 12:50pm. That sounded good to us so we waited. It turned out that this plane was delayed because the tire needed to be repaired. Finally we depart from Memphis at 1:50 pm. Fly to Houston and we were not allowed to land because of storms. The pilot says over the speaker we are going to be in a hold pattern until we could land, so we circled and circled. After about 40 mins. he comes on the intercom and says, "We do not have enough gas to continue in the air, we must land at another airport". That was really more than I really needed to know, he could have just landed without telling us we didn't have much gas left. Anyway, we landed at St. Charles, LA. , stayed there for about an hour and fueled up and then we were allowed to start back toward Houston. We landed in Houston at 5:50 pm and our connecting flight to San Jose, Costa Rica was to leave at 6 pm. We went to our next gate as fast as possible and were glad that this flight too had been delayed and we were to leave at 6:50 pm.
Well, all the passengers got on board but there were no pilots. We waited close to 2 hrs for them, then we waited to be fueled. The pilots decided they wanted more fuel before we left so we waited again. We were sitting still on that plane for 3 hrs before we could get in the air. OK, now we are close to San Jose and the pilot tries to make a landing and has to pull up. We were not allowed to land because of fog. Again we circled and circled and the pilot comes on to say we will have to go to another airport. We finally landed in Nicaragua around 1:30 am, they had to call in workers because they had all gone home for the night. Continental put all the passengers in hotels for the remainder of the night. We left on Monday back to San Jose around 12:30 pm and arrived around 1:10 pm. I thought well we made one landing OK, then the pilot comes on the intercom to say we cannot unload because they do not have a gate for us. Again we wait, for about 40 mins. We were really tired, but very thankful we did not run out of gas and we did make landings, just not the right places at the right times. Thanks for taking time to read all this, I am not sure, but this is probably more information than you wanted to know.