Atlanta

Well, I guess I was a little too optimistic about catching our connection in Atlanta. If the only thing that had delayed us was the maintenance issues, we might have been able to squeeze it in, but the weather decided to play tricks on us and force us to postpone our take off by about 15 minutes. We were hoping and praying the entire way down to Atlanta that they would hold the plane long enough for such a large group (24 plus about 3 others who were traveling to Liberia as well) but God decided that he wanted us to have some unplanned travel adventures.

By the time we got to our gate, our flight had already been in the air for a few minutes. Mrs. Hennig and I proceeded directly to the help desk to figure out what we were going to do while the kids waited patiently. *Just a quick commentary - I was so so so so impressed with your kids! It took us nearly 3 hours to get everything complete and squared away and the kids were awesome about it. We felt so bad that this happened, taking away a whole day of being in Costa Rica, but they just went with the flow. I cannot tell you how thankful and impressed I was with the patience and flexibility they displayed today.* After 3 hours, this is what we had squared away - 16 of us would fly directly to Liberia the next day, at the same time that our flight was today. The other 8 would fly first to Miami and then fly to Liberia. The Miami/Liberia people would beat the others to Liberia by about an hour. We got vouchers for food and hotel rooms. We finally arrived at our hotel around 4 and that is where we are at right now.