Bogota - Departures

I had to drag Bill out of his office, but we still had plenty of time at Pearson before our flights departed. Neither one of us were very hungry, but each grabbed a light meal and a bottle of wine. It was my first glass of wine in a month! My cleanse has been challenging, but the results are worth it (and the weight loss was a nice added bonus). 

Our flight was late departing and were both so tired that we were able to fall asleep before wheels up. Bill was able to sleep for a couple of hours. My sleep was pretty sound (around 4 hours out of the 5+ hours) on the flight. The seat had “wings” on the headrest, so I was able to lean my pillow on it and was not waking up due to whiplash. That just reminded me of Dad, how used to frequently fall asleep at the dining room table between dinner and dessert with his head bobbing!

During the flight Bill was feeling feverish and his stomach was not feeling very well. He is not going to like our 4am wake up call tomorrow. 

We left an hour late, but have made up 1/2 that time in the air! I love when that happens.

Bogota a is a very confusing name for me. I have a hard time spelling it when it sounds like Bo-Geh-Tah. Usually I end up saying Bo-Teg-ah. I am sure I will get it sorted soon! 

The trip to JW Marriott was uneventful and it was nice to crawl into a comfortable bed for a few hours.  (This is what I optimistically wrote on the plane and what follows is what really happened)

We landed and then had to wait a while for the jetway to show up. Then while we took a toilet break, two full plane loads of passengers walked by and trust me, that was not a good thing. 

When we arrived in the customs area, we queued up in the Canadian line (not sure why we had a separate line) and although it was a relatively short line, as there were a few thousand people all waiting to clear customs, it took a very long time. Each individual or group spend at least 10 min with one of the 2 customs officers to pay our entrance fees. The only upside was that our bag was waiting by the time we were ready to leave. All together we were at the airport for 2 painful hours

It took us a while to connect with our Uber driver. We discovered the reason for his cloak and dagger behaviour, was that Uber is not legal in Bogota.  Which is why he was understandably nervous when the police pulled us over at a check stop. Bill and the driver had to get out of the vehicle. Bill was patted down and they checked his bag and our bags in the trunk. They peered in at me and then we were free to go! 

We finally arrived at the JW Marriott at 1am, checked in, ordered a 4am wake up call and were asleep by 1:30.