Faith through Love: Travel home

It all started a few months ago. I told my parents and sister that I wanted to come home for a few weeks to surprise my Grandma D. My journey began on July 21st around 10:30. I left my house and headed to Bahir Dar for the night. I got to Bahir Dar and had a late lunch/early dinner with a friend. On the 22nd I had an early flight to Addis Ababa at 9:20. I got picked up at 7:20 and headed to the airport. I arrived in Addis Ababa around 10:30, by the time I got to the Peace Corps office it was around 11:30. I had to see the PCMO (Peace Corps Medical Officer) to pick up some paperwork. My flight for the States was scheduled for 10:15 pm. So I decided to hang out at the office for the day. I didn't feel like spending money and I didn't want to fight for a spot on a line taxi. I got the the airport around 7:30 to check in and found out my flight was delayed for 2 hours. The flight didn't leave until almost 3 hours after it was scheduled to leave, take off was around 1:00 am. Which put us in Rome for our 1 hour fuel stop 3 hours late, then we left Rome about 45 minutes late. I was suppose to land in D.C. around 8:30 and I had another flight to Sarasota at noon. Well my flight didn't land in D.C until 11:45, which put me at the check-in counter at 12:05. At this point I was very upset, I actually started crying waiting in line to get through immigration. The lady at the check-in counter got me on another flight at 6:30 pm with a transfer in Atlanta. So I spent the afternoon in Dulles airport. I grabbed a frappacino, pumpkin bread and double chocolate chip muffin from Starbucks, before leaving I ate at Chipotle. The 6:30 flight from Dulles to Atlanta got stuck on the runway for about 20 minutes, so the plane landed late in Atlanta, which made me miss my late for my 2nd flight. I was unset again and almost started crying, missing 2 flights in 1 day and all I wanted to do was get home. When I got to the customer service desk there were about 20 people in front of me. I was not hopeful that I would get to Florida that day. It was 10:00 pm and I was extremely exhausted and running on about 5 hours of sleep. The lady at customer service was extremely helpful and found me a flight to Tampa. The flight was suppose to leave at 11:10, but was delayed about an hour. So I was lucky enough to get a seat on that flight. I made it to the gate at 11:15 and they found a seat for me. I had traveled for almost 48 hours and I just wanted to be in my bed! I landed in Tampa, Florida around 1:20 am, by the time I got to in my bed it was around 3 am. I was extremely exhausted.