Our trip to Los Angeles was fabulous. It was warm and sunny, and we had such a great time with our family and friends. Courtney and Nathan had a beautiful (and fun!) wedding, and we were so happy to be there for it. Needless to say, it was pretty difficult to get on the plane to come back here. Somehow, we managed to force ourselves to leave paradise. After 30+ hours of travel, we were in East London. Unfortunately, our bags were not.
Our plane was about an hour late into Joberg, so there was wasn't a lot of time once we cleared South African customs and rechecked our bags before our next flight left. While we weren't completely surprised that our bags didn't make it, we were absolutely exhausted and not up to dealing with the issue. We were told in East London that our bags would arrive on the 4:30 flight from Joberg that afternoon. Since we wouldn't be able to make it back to site before dark with our bags, we decided to stay at a backpackers in East London. We were called around 5:00 and told that Matt's bag had arrived on the flight, but Sara's had not. At that point, the guy we had been working with told us that he was going to call Joberg about Sara's bag. Seriously? He was just now going to call Joberg and let them know that bags were missing? I'm pretty sure that bags are scanned now once they enter and leave an airport, so you'd think it would be fairly easily to locate lost luggage. This isn't 1991. Anyway, Sara's bag eventually arrived on the 8:30 flight. We were able to have cheeseburgers (2 for 1) at the restaurant next to the backpackers, so the lost bags were ultimately worth the hassle. Food makes everything better.
Now we've been back at our site for a week, and already we are looking forward to our next trip!
On a sidenote, we had a pretty humorous interaction last weekend. Someone asked us where in America we were from. When we replied Los Angeles, the young woman got excited and said “LA! The Big Apple!” And no we didn't correct her because it was too good.
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