Not gone quite to plan!

Hola familia y amigos,

ok so it hasn´t gone quite to plan........The flight to Quito was diverted to Columbia due to the political unrest in Quito and all the airways in Ecuador being closed! Yes I was dropped off in the only South American country I wanted to avoid, ironic I know.
There was lots of confusion at baggage collection due to all baggage from all diverted flights being unloaded onto one baggage belt! Luckily I had met some lovely english people who were supposed to be flying into Quito on an an Amazon cruise holiday who took me under their wing. I liked their positivity and sense of humour which helped whilst they attempted to help me to casually find other 2 girls who were on the flight and booked on the same GVI programme as myself. Eventually all 250 of us on my Quito flight had collected our baggage and were bussed to a really nice hotel in Bagota, compliments of Iberia airlines which is just aswell as it an expensive hotel! Although the armed guards surrounding the hotel were slightly disconcerting, the hotel staff were extremely helpful.
The good thing was that on boarding one of the many busses I happened upon the two other GVI members Laura and Hayley. After a very long day travelling we finally went to bed but was woken up at 4.45am by an early morning wake up call by the hotel which I did not order.
Little did I know that whilst reading and dozeing all other passengers (accept us 3) had been informed of another flight to Quito and were on their way to the airport!
After leisurely eating breakfast we suddenñy became aware that we hadn´t seen anyone else from our flight. On asking at reception we were made aware of the situation and infomed we had to get to the airport in 20 minurçtes as they were waiting for us. I rushed to pack my bag (which took an hour and a half to pack in the UK) and were were driven at speed to the airport (40 minutes drive away)! Needless to say we didn´t make it in time.
Luckily the airline arranged for us to get on another flight, unluckily it wasnt for another 11 hours! We resigned ourselves to a day in the airport where we knew it was safe!
We had no Columbian Peso´s but we managed to change up some dollars and we whittled away the hours with laughable irony moments, eating, playing cards, reading, failed attempts to phone the UK, emailing home and generally getting to know each other. I haveto say though, we improved on our Castellano, use of the South American keyboard and discussed the cause of yellow urine!
We eventually decided to move to the deparure lounge, having a few laughs in the security queue about pistachios and despachio. When handing over our documents to officials Laura and I were asked ´´Quito?¨in a way that suggested ¨ Do you really want to go to Quito?¨ Fealing reassured (ha) we smiled naively replying ¨Si¨!