Day 61

The last week we have vacationed in Mexico City has been very enjoyable and stressful. The response to the virus country by country is so different. I just read that Canada just closed its borders to foreigners. I’m praying that Mexico doesn’t close their borders to foreigners.

We got the kids out of the hotel by 8am, those of you with four kids will call that miraculous. I just have a very hard working and forgiving wife.

We got to the airport by 930am after dropping our rental car off. We had breakfast and then went through security no problem. The Mexico City Airport is enormous, we had to take a bus to where our plane was on the runway.

As soon as our bus arrived at the plane, an airport official opened the bus door and said the airport we are supposed to be flying into has been closed. Everyone’s first thoughts were the virus that’s going around and the City the airport is in is just being cautious.

So we get dropped off back at the terminal and we start discussing logistics. I need to be in court Wednesday, Thursday, and a Friday. Hopefully I can continue the Friday court hearing. Then we hear the reason the airport closed.

A small airplane crashed into a passenger jet while landing. The small plane had no authority to be anywhere near that air space. So it delayed our flight one hour, the airport had to make sure the runway was fine to land on. I’ll finish the next paragraph after we land in our home city.
******** Forty minutes later********

It is a 40 minute flight to the city we are living in. As soon as the plane gets to its cruising altitude, twenty minutes later we are descending. We finally got home and are now unpacking. I am re-packing for my flights tomorrow. I would have flown home tonight but I couldn’t miss my daughters entire birthday. What would usually be a 4 hour non stop flight into Oakland, will be a one stop in Houston with a 4 hour layover and a flight from Houston to sfo. I’ll get home maybe by midnight. I have court 8 hours later, and I’m still hoping and praying that they cancel it because there is a shelter in place for all Bay Area counties. We will see.