What a day!!!

Yesterday (Saturday) we travelled from Sao Paulo to Buenos Aires through Rio de Janeiro.  And what a trip it was!!  We arrived at the Congonhas Airport at about 11:15am for a 1:18pm flight.  This is the smaller airport in Brazil and much closer to our apartment.  Apparently because it was Saturday, the airport was very busy.  They do check-in a little different than we are used to.  You have to get in certain lines based on your flight.  We got in a line but we weren't sure if we were in the correct line, so we found an employee to ask, and she took us to the correct line (and the line was very long).  A few minutes later she came back and told us that there was a problem with our flight from Rio to Buenos Aires. Due to the volcano in Chile many flights have been cancelled.  There was a guy in front of us in line from Australia that helped with the Portuguese to English translation.  He was very helpful and we were very grateful for his help.  In the end, we were told to go to the Information Booth in the airport.  At the information booth they told us that we could not get to Buenos Aires from Congohas airport but that they were still flying from Guarulhos Airport (the big international airport) and said we could get a free bus trip to Guarulhos.  Before going to Guarulhos, we wanted to make sure that we could get our flights changed, so we went to the GOL (the airline we were flying on) office.  The lady (who spoke little english) there looked at our flights, and was not sure if the flight from Rio to Buenos Aires was actually running.  She asked us to step aside for a while so she could confirm.  In the end, she told us that we could take our original flights.  So, after about a half hour of running around the airport wondering if we would get to Buenos Aires, we finally got back in the long check-in line and checked in for our flights.  It's a good thing we got to the airport early!  When we got to the airport in Buenos Aires, we went to the taxi stand to reserve a taxi and then to the currency exchange.  Dave waited in line for about a half hour to exchange money.  We finally made it to our hotel at about 10pm last night.