And we're off! Kind of.... Nearly.... Almost

Anne and I have spent the last few days madly packing and repacking our bags. Weighing them, freaking out when they're overweight, redistributing all of the shoes and books and weighing our bags again. 

Well, the good news is that weight wasn't a problem. I don't know if its because we're flying first class, but they didn't weigh our bags!

The bad news.... American Airlines have incompetent call centre staff who told us, on TWO separate occasions, that we could take an extra checked bag, we'd just need to pay a fee.... At check-in, however, we were told that we couldn't have an extra bag because of the embargo placed on flights to Central America. No way to override their system. Absolutely nothing we could do.... Except buy an economy ticket.... For $570 USD. Which, of course, we had to do. After all of the packing and repacking, there was no way to know what was in each bag, and we certainly couldn't sacrifice a bag without knowing what was inside. 

So..... Looks like we're living off tortillas for the next month or so....

Feel free to donate to the 'Anne and Crystal gots themselves a problem' fund!!!