Unexpected Layover in Bogota, Colombia

 It's 3:42pm and I should be home with my family by now but instead I'm sitting in a hotel room in Bogota, Colombia.  It's a nice room, in the style of a contemporary two bedroom apartment with kitchen and the works. But still, I'd rather be home, our show as on Sunday, what am I still doing here its TUESDAY!?! ....So I left my room when I started writing, went to eat and the people who brought us here were sorting out our flights for tomorrow. It's now 6:32pm. They have been very accommodating though....after all, it's their negligence why we missed our original flight.

Let me explain: We landed in Bogota on Saturday, at around 11pm. The hotel we stayed at was in a different city so we drove for 3 hours or more to get there. I got my room at about 3am. The following  afternoon (Sunday) we left for the show which ended up being another 3hour drive or more from the hotel.  Some of the guys had an early flight on Monday so after getting back to the hotel at a little after 10pm we ate and they got ready for their 3 hour drive back to Bogota to make their 7 or 6am flights....they left at about 2am. But we had Monday off because apparently there are no flights on Copa Airlines to Jamaica via Panama on Monday so we spent the day at the hotel (in the middle of nowhere) and had a scheduled lobby call/departure for the airport at 1:30am (Tuesday)...

Everyone was ready, paid our bills, and waited..1:45am....no bus,.........2am.....no bus,......2:25am...still no bus. We called our TM to explain what was going on - us 6 members were the only ones left in Colombia ...and he said he'll call us back.......3am...no bus. So we called him back because if the drive to Bogota was three hours, clearly at this point we would barely catch the flight. Our TM eventually said he couldn't get through to anyone who he had arranged the pick up with in the first place and his suggestion was to have the girl at the front desk call a van or whatever to get us out ASAP.
Well, she called maybe 4 or 5 people who declined to take that trip at 3am. ...Finally she spoke to a guy who agreed to pick us up but he was coming from Bogota so he said it would take him four hours to get to us and another four hours to get to Bogota. At this point we all accepted that we were going to miss the flight so we all went back to our rooms and tried to get what little rest we could till he arrived.

All this time I assumed our TM would have been trying to book us on the next possible available flight. Hmmmmm, nah...Instead we waited about an hour at the airport for someone to meet us that supposedly was coming to book flights...hmmmm, nah....So we were at the airport for about 4 hours, waiting to hear about a flight that really wasn't being booked.  Anyhow they finally sent someone to sort everything out, got us some nice rooms, took us to eat and now here I am again still waiting on a confirmation from the airline. I'm pretty sure we'll get confirmed on the flight and be home tomorrow...it just kinda sucks that I'm here when I should be home today.
Everything happens for a reason I guess...Learn from every experience.

So what am I up to today? Spending one more night in Colombia.

Blessings