Hola Nicaragua Part I

Hola Nicaragua! Part I
Current mood: excited

I finally made it to Nicaragua! It's already been an adventure so far. First of all, I don't know what I would have done without the help of my dear sister Bethany and our friend Maria. They were life savers. They ran me around everywhere in preparation for the trip. After a grueling 18 hour road trip back from Okla. I came to Gainesville where I spent the majority of the night packing and downloading songs for my new ipod I bought for the trip. I got 600 songs downloaded, but didn't have time to import them, so I drug the laptop along so I could work on it Fri. night at the hostel in Miami where we stayied. Only, once I tried to download them, I realized I forgot my connector cord in G'ville. So, Sat. morning (on the way to the airport) we stopped at Radio Shack, I bought a cord, and then I decided I needed to get the oil changed in the car before handing it over to my sister for two months. And,I thought this would be a good place to download the songs into my ipod. Unfortunately, I did not know how to do it and thus ran out of time before the car was ready. So, off to the airport (while I organized last minute paperwork in the backseat). The Miami airport is bad, by the way. We sat in traffic about 30 min. just waiting to park. We run in, I hand off the computer to Bethany and Maria to attempt to download my 600 songs into my ipod while I check in. I waited in line 1 hour only to find out that my flight was overbooked and they were trying to transfer me to another airline. By the time everything gets settled I have about 15 minutes before the flight takes off. I find Bethany and Maria, give them hugs, grab my ipod and take off running. They managed to get 75 songs on the thing. It helped to drown out the screaming baby on the flight, though. Ani, Alex Olson, Marley, I'm good to go. I was a little uneasy realizing I would not have a ride when I arrived at the airport, since I was 1.5 hours late. What to do...Read part II. It gets really interesting. I know, I'm really dorky.