We finally arrived at our hotel @1:30 am.

Well, at this time we were suppouse to be enjoying the beaches in Puerto Rico, but instead we are stuck for 8 hours at the airport. We missed our fligth!!! First time ever!
They gave us seats for the next flight, but I had to make severals changes in my hotel and car reservation.
I am looking toward to finally arriving in Puerto Rico.
Here is a pict of my wife checking her email at the airport. Good thing they have free wifi here, so we can kill some time.

I recently wrote a post recommending that if you find a similar low airfare,  avoid flying in Spirit Air. I recognize that sometimes it is hard to resist the temptation when you are bombarded with emails from Spirit Air advertising round trip flights for less than $15.00. So I succumbed to the temptation and booked a flight to Fort Lauderdale -Puerto Rico. The cost? Just $130.00 for me and my wife (taxes included) I actually paid more in taxes that in airfare.

I’ve been wanting to go to Puerto Rico for the longest time. None of the cruises I’ve taken had gone to Puerto Rico, so I couldn’t resist booking a quick getaway for the two of us and decided to spend 4 days and 3 night on the Caribbean island during Thanksgiving week.

Once I booked the flight, I began searching for a nice hotel. I did the regular searches: hotwire, hotels.com, and the likes. I found several affordable hotels in San Juan, but when I read the reviews I was not impressed. So I dedicated my second round of searches to my favorite money saving technique: Timeshare presentation.

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On Saturday, an airline crew and two passengers had to use duck tape to keep Maria Castillo, a woman from NY, on her seat during a United Airline flight from Puerto Rico to Chicago . According to the police report, Ms. Castillo began fighting with the flight crew and other passengers in the middle of a flight. Initially they were able to restrain her using ankle cuffs, but after she was able to get out of them twice, they had to use duck tape to keep her in her seat.

The flight had to be diverted to North Carolina where FBI agents boarded the airplane and took Ms. Castillo into custody. She is now facing several federal charges

Some witness said they saw Ms. Castillo having drinks at the Airport bar and she also ordered a drink on the plane.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about how easy it would be for a hacker to steal the information embedded in the computer chip inside your passport.

Friday the State Department warned 400 passport applicants of a security breach in its records system that may have left them open to identity theft. Although the breach is not related to how your personal information is stored in your passport, it does represent a major issue that only increases the fear some people have about how their private information is handled by the government and the private sector.

The State Department have already notified 383 people (most from Washington DC) that their passport application containing personal information, including Social Security number may have been illegally accessed and used to open fraudulent credit card accounts.

The breach was noticed back in March, but the State Department has not released any additional information on how it occurred, other than to say that it is still under investigation. So far one man has been arrested and one State Dpt. employee had been reassigned and might face further disciplinary action pending completion of the investigation