So yeah its a party! We had our fun packed our bags and checked out of the apt. checked in at the airport. You'd think that was it. Bye Dominica, I'm ready to find a new home. Well ya know I don't think I've ever had luck with things that already for sure. For instance, we were surly going to stay in Dominica until 2 weeks before the end of school. So we sat and waited for hours in the airport at Dominica where the are making lots of renovations. We got the temporary waiting room to get on the plane. It was dark and gloomy grimy and wet. The last of which was because of the bathroom.. Ew! It was also crowded cause other flights were coming and going. I wish we had been going. Our flight was cancelled. I guess it was to cloudy to land. The planes land from inland since they take off over the sea. So we had to gather our luggage which was might I saw enormously crazily heavy, and decided to stay in some Cottage inn type place close to the airport. I didn't want to eve drive to Picard again so we stayed close by. This is the Faith Cottage where we stayed. The main sucky part about our flight being cancelled was that we reserved a room in Puerto Rico and so we lost money on that. I've decided that unless its the busy season and necessary no more advance booking.
Might I add that the bathroom and shower are behind th curtains and I barely slept because someone mentioned a place they stayed where they got bites from the beds.
It was so strange. We were one of a few groups from our flight staying there and we felt like we were on some weird tour. We were transported to the cottage together then herded to our rooms then herded to the bus to go to a restaurant then herded to the cottage. Then woken up for coffee and ate breakfast together. Weird to be so close with strangers for a good 12 hours. The restaurant was actually really good. A couple from New York own it and it has American food and great cheesecake. Its called Pagua Bay. The next morning we were lucky to get a rebooked flight out where we decided to overnight in Miami instead of Puerto Rico. And a little FYI for travelors. The Miami airport hotel is so great. Its still about $120 but the beds are so so so comfy and its a really beautiful room. So we decided at the airport that instead of sitting in that awful waiting room for forever we would wait in the room that you pick up your tickets. When we finally did go in it was like a miracle. They had overnight finished their new waiting room which was beautiful and clean and had room to breath. I swear it was so weird after the day before awful room.
So yeah after an overnight in Miami and a huge waste of money on this whole trip we made it! We got to the hill less country of Grand Bahama and moved into our grimy 80's style apartment, that is actually pretty nice. It was a nice present to remind us that Dominica isn't the worst place in the world but honestly I am so glad to be rid of the "What's customer service?" attitude and the crazy stomach churning roads and I've have come to the promised land.
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