When we arrived in Miami, there was a gate agent waiting for us to tell us that the problem had been resolved. They issued boarding passes without incident and they are celebrating here--"We have boarding passes." However, Dad and I had boarded the plane when Dad's phone rang--Alan saying that they said that they didn't have tickets--something on their boarding passes that wasn't right. Here we go again. I stayed on the plane and Dad went to help. At the last moment they finally just let them board again--without tickets. We were finally on our way to Brazil, tickets or no tickets.