While we waited for the currier to arrive with the papers we made our selves busy with a few other task. We were then taken to the immigration office where the papers to ask for my release awaited me. While at the office I was interrogated again and had to also fill out a bunch of paper work and get copies of my different documents that I had. The immigration office then explained to me that technically I would not be able to leave the airport because I did not have a passport, but they were going to allow Dragon Air to take responsibility of me as long as they made sure that I was back in the terminal by the end of the day.
After getting out of the airport terminal we headed to the train station at the airport so that we could catch a couple hour train ride to the US Consulate where I would spend 3 to 4 hours to get my emergency passport. After getting my emergency passport we would then need to return to the train station and take the couple hour train ride back. But just as we were purchasing our train tickets Wayne received a call saying that they had found my passport on the airplane and it would be flown back to HK and arrive around 4:30 pm.
It was now 1:30 and we were getting hungry because we hadn’t eaten yet today. So Wane took me and Joshua to lunch and gave us each a meal voucher. After lunch Wayne took us to the ticket counter for Cathay Pacific to see if they could switch our flights over to today rather than tomorrow as they had originally planned to do. The ticket office said that they would need to get into contact with the LA office and see if it would be alright if they allowed us to switch the days. We were then told that it would be a few hours until l they would get a response so we were told to go and wait somewhere. Since the next few hours were free Wayne parted ways with us for the time being and we went and took a small break.
After Waiting an hour and a half we went back to the ticket counter and received some great news, they were going to allow us to change the tickets to today and that they would also wave the transfer fee. After receiving the news we then proceeded to the check in counter and started the process of getting or tickets. Since I had yet to receive my passport back I would not be able to check in, but Joshua on the other hand would be able to check in. So we started to get Joshua checked in when the guy working behind the counter asked Joshua if he had a plane ticket to leave South Africa. Since the plane tickets hadn’t been booked yet, the man working the ticket counter said that we would not be able to enter South Africa since we had no proof of intent of leaving.
So after being stopped form buying a ticket to Africa we then proceeded to look for a plane ticket out of Africa so we would be able to get into South Africa in the first place. So we spent the next few hours working with AIM to try and book a ticket out of Africa so we could then book one into Africa. After we worked for a few hours we were finally able to book a flight for Joshua and I had also had my passport returned to me. So we went and booked our flights that would be leaving later that night.
After a long and tiresome day we were finally confident that we would make our trip. Our only obstacle left was to make it through airport security, which luckily for us went very smoothly. So at long last we said goodbye to our new friend Wayne and parted ways, him heading home after working with us his entire day, and us to dinner and then later our terminal. And at long last we finally boarded our plane took off to Africa.
