We were all set to go. We said our goodbyes, the bags were on the plane and we were sitting at the gate. I was soo excited and nervous at the same time because the furthest I've been is Canada. Then, of all the natural disasters...our flight was cancelled due to "volcanic ash."
It was a huge bummer and an awful start to the trip, but Professor Ryan and our team of travel agents at Syracuse were all over it. Professor Ryan put the airline employees, as well as all the other people waiting for hotels, in their place. He used his people-skills to get everyone is a single-file organized line, even though that line had to move three times.
We eventually got a hotel, The International, which all of us began to doubt its existance when we had to wait for the shuttle bus for 40 minutes. It did show up, though, except the driver was not at all interested in helping us load the van with all of our luggage.
When we got to the hotel we went out to our first group dinner. We found out that our flight was rescheduled for 9am so we all planned to meet in the lobby at 5:50am to catch the shuttle back to the airport.
At 5am, we all got wake up calls from Professor Ryan saying that our flight was moved once more, this time until 7pm tonight! So, for now we are all in Professor Ryan's room waiting to leave for the airport again. Please, everybody, keep your fingers crossed that we get out tonight!!!
Ashley :)
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