Coyans in the Czech Republic

Luggage woes

Ahoj (Hi) everyone! We have safely made it to the Czech Republic after 25 hours of travel!! Unfortunately our luggage did not make the trip with us. That's right - we have been here two days now living with only the clothes on our back and what was in our carry-on's (mostly snacks, magazines, laptop without a power supply, and one toothbrush).
We had an interesting and little sad time at the airport, staring at an empy luggage carousel going round-and-round, hoping that our luggage would make a dramatic entrance out of the little rubber door. Instead, we finally realized that our luggage would not arrive, when passengers from the following flight (arriving an hour later) began to arrive for their luggage. Danny spoke with the baggage "official", and was informed that our luggage did not make the transfer to the Prague plane, and would arrive on Friday morning, and be delivered to us by Friday evening (we are about a two-hour drive from the airport).
Unfortunately what has followed has been a comedy of both airline and customs bureaucracy. We were informed this morning (Friday) that our luggage had arrived in Prague, and would be delivered today. Then we received a call from Czech customs, who statedf that our luggage was detained because of "questionable Materials" - which are 8 mysterious boxes, possibly containing illegal narcotic substances. Our Czech friend Pavel (director of OM Czech Republic) patiently explained to them that these boxes are in fact Sees Candy, which are gifts for friends here. So Czech customs agreed to release the incarcerated baggage, and send them to us today. However we later received another call that for some reason the baggage was not picked up by the delivery service for some reason, and would be delivered Saturday. Then we received yet another call that we needed to drive back to Prague, and discuss the content of the luggage with customs officials, and open the luggage in their presence. Following this, I (Danny) called the airline baggage department, and was told that this was the first time they had heard about this missing baggage, and they would look into it. Then they called back and said the baggage was cleared by customs, and was on its way to us (this was Friday evening here). Yet another call followed, saying to not pay attention to the previous call, and that we needed to travel to the airport, walk to a special phone located in one part of the airport, and dial a special code. At that point the customs police will escort us to our jailed luggage, and we will have to explain ourselves.
So as I write this it is Friday night at 9:30 (which is 11:30 AM Friday Califonria time), and tomorrow morning we will make the 4-hour round trip to Prague, hopefully returning with our luggage. The plus side of this is that Krista has bought several new Czech outfits (ha ha), since she could not be seen in her "travelling clothes". I however, am still wearing the same unwashed jeans for 4 days now....