I made the connection!!!

I made the connection in Atlanta and got my flight to Bogota, unfortunately my case didn´t! I took everyone´s advise and got to the airport in plenty of time, in fact I arrived at 5.15am for a 9.10am flight. For some reason airlines have decided that opening checkins early to cope with the advice to get their early would make things too easy, so we all waited in line patiently for the checkins to open. Queing for security didn´t take as long as most were prepared for either so by the time I ended up being air-side with more time to spare than I usually, not knowing how long my flight would be delayed. There was another full security check at the gate which took longer than the first as there was only one man conducting them for all male passengers. The longest delay to this flight however wasn´t due to the security measures but the mathmatically failings of the checkin / cabin crew. The number of people on the plane didn´t match the number of people that should be on the plane and more "number crunching" needed to be done, at this point we´d already taxied and were next to the runway. These numbers took between 30 minutes and an hour and a half to crunch! ( I´m not exactly sure as I did doze off a couple of times.) Anyway, to cut this rambling down a little, we landed in Atlanta 2 hours before my Bogota flight and that was delayed anyway. When we got on the plane and the doors closed I then had the longest delay of the day, 2 hours sitting just feet away from the gate due to a case needing to be taken off but the ground crew not being able to find it!!! So I arrived in Bogota a few hours late, my case however arrived last night, 24 hours later than me, due to US baggage not seeing or understanding a giant orange sticker of the case explaing that this should be "checked thru" to my next flight. So back to now, having un-packed my case last night, I´m just about have breakfast and pack my bags for the Amazon, yay!!!