(lima) stranded

2 hour delay on Lloyd Aero Boliviano means i missed my flight to houston.
arrived 1am monday morning,
haggled in broken english and spanish with the lone LAB representative for 3 hours,
then found hotel room with the help of a similarly stranded american biologist and japanese girl.
the american biologist decided to stick it out in the aeropuerto.
the japanese girl and i shared a taxi and a room, and a nice monday afternoon in downtown lima.
an assignment from justin kept us occupied,
and then we went to the airport to haggle some more.
$100 in date-change fees bought us a free pass to the VIP lounge,
where we gorged ourselves on minisandwiches and herbal tea.
and then caught our midnight flights to texas.