Traveling to Kodiak

Hello, Everyone!
As most of you know, I left for Kodiak Island, Alaska, on Monday, May 7, 2007. We were supposed to leave at 2pm and were delayed until 2:40pm in Indy. We got into Dallas/Fort Worth later than we should have and hurried to our gate. However, upon arriving at Gate C16, we found--to our dismay--that our flight to Anchorage was delayed for 2 hours. I looked at our itinerary and realized that this would make us miss our connecting flight to Kodiak Island. Our leader, Joyce, went up and talked to the airline people and they said that since we were delayed due to mechanical difficulties, the airline would pay for us to stay in a hotel in Anchorage and we would fly to Kodiak the next morning. That sounds nice except for the fact that we arrived in Anchorage at 10:45pm (or 2:45am on Indiana time) and had to be back at the airport at 4:30am to catch the flight! We called the hotel and they came and picked us up and took us to the hotel. We stayed at The Puffin Inn. We got to our room at 11:53pm and I was in bed at 12:04am! I did not even open my suitcase at the hotel! The same man was still driving the shuttle (sad sign of our sleep deprivation)! We had some trouble with the new tickets, but 15 minutes before the flight was boarding, we received our new tickets. We tried to hurry through security and all of us were "randomly selected" to participate in a special security screening (which means they had to search us and all of our carry-on luggage). We rushed to our gate and went right out to our plane. The flight to Kodiak was amazingly beautiful. I took lots of pictures which I will try to post later. (I am writing this from a school computer right now.) The plane descended almost into the water before landing on the runway that literally starts at the water's edge. Needless to say... we are all exhausted!!!!