We arrived in Monrovia, Liberia on Wednesday morning, July 14, 2010 at about 2:25am. Our scheduled arrival date, which was Sunday morning, July 11, at about 3:30 am had been circumvented by Royal Air Morocco. Our flight was delayed on the 9th due to whatever reason the airline felt like giving! How disappointed we were. However, our disappointment lasted for a little bit. We were going to have a fourteen hour transit period in Casablanca, Morocco and were looking forward to that with some reservation. What would we do for those many hours? We did come up with a plan to go see the city or just rest at a hotel. Anyway, with the delay, I was happy with not having to go through the fourteen hour wait.
A hotel was provided for the night – but not the best. In Queens, New York!
We were rescheduled to depart JFK International Airport on Saturday morning, July 10th at about 10:00 am (actual take-off time – 11:15 am). So our seven hours flight began. It was a smooth and uneventful flight. Great food, kind flight attendants (but my daughter Licshen did not think they were kind), good job, landed safely, we gave God all the glory.
We thought we were done with delays and surprises. No! We landed around 11:00 pm on Saturday night, July 10th, grabbed our overnight bags, took off in a fast paced walk, with my daughter, Lischen telling me to “hurry Mother, we cannot be late”. We were never late to begin with. Then we heard that the plane had left. The flight to Monrovia had taken off about 45 minutes before we landed. Oh no, how can this have happened? We wanted to get to Monrovia. Disappointment settled in again. This time, big time!
We went through a slow, very slow process of getting new boarding passes, to immigration, to finding the Royal Air Morocco informational desk, and then finally to a hotel in Casablanca! Phew! By that time we were completely exhausted and hungry and mad. This took us about 6 hours! We arrived at the Hotel Zeinth around 5:00 am on Sunday morning, July 11th.
MORE TO COME SOON!
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