homeward adventure

My flight from Italy to the states was changed three times by Delta.  In the end the flight they placed me on wasn't too bad because it was the same one out of the country as Maria.  But that's not even the fun part.  Guy got sick the night before so when it would all depend if he'd be able to get us to Rome or not in the morning.  He woke us up and was still sick and Miriam was also not feeling well.  She was able to get us to the train station and get us tickets to Rome and then to the airport.  Maria and I jump on the train its a full one so we ride in the part of the car where you enter at with only one seat, we sat on out bags.  We are about a mile outside of the Rome train station one all of a sudden the train stops moving.  No one knows what's going on.  After being stopped for around a half an hour the doors on the train open and everyone gets off and starts walking along the tracks to the station.  We follow carrying our bags as we were walking along one woman fell out of the train on me.  It was crazy.  We reach the station to find out there is some sort of power supply problem and that all trains are delayed or cancelled.  But the signs say that a train is going to the airport we board that one.  We waited on it for a half hour before it leaves for the airport.  Once at the airport we have to walk to catch a shuttle to the right terminal.  No problems checking in and our flight is delayed an hour.  We get on the shuttle that takes us to the gates where we wait.  We land in JFK and have to be towed to the gate where the tow has power problems which post us on the jet way and stuck on board the plane for an extra 30 minutes.  Takes for ever to get through security where workers keep leaving even though there is a never ending line.  I get Maria to her gate say good and she waits.  I walk the 20 minutes to my gate and wait for my delayed flight.   Now I sit at the Phoenix airport waiting until 7 am when I can hopefully catch the shuttle bus to Flagstaff and be done with this adventure.  At least it was great time in Italy.