Greetings from Johannesburg! ... Just kidding. (Or, A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Well, we didn't make it out of O'Hare today. At some point, our airline reallocated half the weight limit to additional cargo instead of people, which meant the lowest people on the Airplane Totem Pole got bumped off the flight (aka, students paying reduced fares, aka, our group). After three hours of waiting, we were told that we'd be flying into Heathrow tonight instead of Amsterdam, with an eight hour layover in London and vouchers for free hotels and transportation (!!!). We all started yelp-ing al fresco cafés (thinking that this would be pretty amazing, actually) until the rep came back to us and said they couldn't squeeze us all on that flight either. Boo! 

 So, we all went home. The whole thing was quite anti-climactic. Hopefully we will fly out at the same time tomorrow night rather than today. I'm pretty disappointed that we're missing a whole day in Joburg, but crossing my fingers that we'll get to make it up, or at least get out of the terminal this time. Now, to dig my phone charger out of my suitcase...

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