More Obstacles

Our travel agency calls. The Russian Consulate himself is coming to open the door & hand over our passports to the travel agency's courier! Praise God! FedEx can not guarantee overnight delivery for packages coming out of NYC. Our flight leaves early Friday Morning & stops at JFK. Our new plan is to fly there, using our CO driver's license as ID, then meet my friend & then check onto our Moscow flight using our passports. We call Delta to double check that this will work. No. They will want to see our passports at Denver because technically we are checking in for an international flight. Also, we learn that we can not use the return flight from our original round-trip tickets. There is a big fee for canceling the tickets & rebooking the return portion. If we do not check in on the first flight, the tickets automatically cancel. It's just under 24 hours since we bought the one-way tickets to NY-Moscow. We can still cancel them for a refund. Unfortunately, we can not find another round-trip ticket which uses NY as a stop-over on Friday. We can't even find a seat for any flight into NY on Thursday. We need to stop in NY so we can meet my friend & get our passports! Our best bet is to buy another set of one-way tickets home from Russia. For a smaller fee, they will let us cancel the original round-trip tickets & use the same flights on another date in the next 12 months. They tell us to call TSA to check again about traveling out of Denver w/o a passport. Denver TSA says no problem. OK, time to get packing! Still praying everything will work...