Stuck

Yesterday James and I were so excited to start our journey to the magical Maldives. We knew we had many hours of travel ahead, but we didn't expect it to take 48. Mother nature had her own ideas. Sandstorm. I should have expected it when I woke up, checked the weather and it said "blowing dust". Silly me, I didn't think of this. We were supposed to take off from sully air force at 2:15. We waited for a 4 pm update, then a 6pm, and finally a 7:30pm....fail. We spent the next two hours trying to change our flights and our hotel changed with no Internet or long distance phone access. Next we went to get a chu assignment to sleep in. We were lucky to get a wet chu (bathroom in the trailer). It made us very grateful for the accommodations we have at the embassy. So now we cross our fingers and wait. Hoping the sandstorm goes away in the next two hours so we don't lose yet another day of our beloved R&R.