After an overnight flight, got into Miami early in the morning. Went through immigration after a very long walk (seems like it’s on the other side of the airport), and then picked up our luggage to go through customs. Customs was something of a joke, one guy sitting near the exit just collecting the forms, and didn’t really seem to care a whole lot. Outside the door, rechecked our baggage, then had to head to another terminal to catch our AA flight back to Detroit.
Got into Detroit, and stood around watching the luggage come onto the carousel, but our bags never appeared. That’s not good, just about every piece of clothing I own except for what I’m wearing is in the luggage :). Apparently 4 hours in Miami isn’t long enough for them to transfer the luggage after you drop it off after customs. Seems kinda ridiculous to me. AA said that it should be on the later flight that night, and that we’d get it sometime on Monday. Oh well, guess that means that I don’t have to do laundry tonight.
(And FWIW, it did indeed show up the next day.)