Not so much... with about 2 hours left in the flight the pilot abruptly comes on the PA and informs us that we are going to be making an emergency medical landing in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. We are still not sure what was wrong with the passenger but we landed safely and they were taken off the flight and hopefully he/she is now doing well.
We sat on the ground in Winnipeg for 1 hour waiting for our new flight plan to Detroit and getting fuel to recoup what we lost from our diversion. We ended up arriving in Detroit at 7:05 PM, about an hour and 15 minutes delayed. Our flight to KC was set to leave at 7:50. We were not optimistic about making it.
7:05PM We get to immigration to find there are 5 agents processing roughly 300-400 people from two different flights... tick tick tick... We wait there for about 20 minutes.
7:25 PM We get through immigration and thankfully our bags are waiting for us on the carousel.
7:27 PM With bags in hand we get ready to go through customs to find 4 agents working here.
7:32 PM We get through customs, recheck our bags, and head for the terminal
7:40 PM We make it to our gate as the gate worker in making the final boarding call for our flight.
We were so thankful that we were able to make that flight. We really didn't want to stay the night in Detroit. I still can't believe we made it. Apparently Delta didn't think we would make it either because they had already booked us a flight for Sunday morning and as a result one of our bags ended up on that flight not the flight we were on (poor Bonnie, no clothes for a day).
We are really glad to be back and really excited to relax with family and friends!
