Here are some highlights from my travels thus far. As my mother put it, the 'adventure' is well under way. But have no fear, all is well, you can continue reading.....
- Tuesday morning, said goodbye to Mom, drove to the airport with Dad, and the whole time that song 'Country road, take me home, to the place, I belong.....' was in my head
- Missed my flight!!!! Could not belive that I did this. All I can say is that I was SO tired, the stress of the last week, all the crying I had done....I don't know, but I just wanted to close my eyes for a moment, you can imagine the rest. AND, I woke up just after they closed the gates!!! BUT, but, but, they put me on a flight leaving just an hour later and also arriving in Frankfurt just a couple of hours later than planned. Whew!!
- On the flight I sat in between one man who kept jabbing me with his elbow as he hogged the armrest. GGRRRR. That was obnixious. The to the other side of me was a very nice gentleman/lady. Oh and I can't forget the woman across the isle from us who watched some movie the whole way and laughed unbelievably loud considering she was not in her home nor even a cinema where everyone was watching the same movie!!!! Okay, I did happen to be watching the movie and that is why I can tell you that it wasn't even that funny!
- Waited in Chicago while flight was delayed because the flight leaving our gate before us had no pilot
- Had HORRIBLE turbulance durring flight. I was admittadly slightly terrified. At one point I considered grabbing the conveniently attractive guy sitting next to me. Thought it would be a conversation starter.....no I didn't actually do it.
- Turned out that we had an awesome tailwind and made good time getting to Frankfurt. Unfortuantely someone had a medical emergency on our plane wich required some sorting out before we taxied to our gate and deboarded the plane.
- Ab-sol-ute-ly no trouble at customs, they didn't even ask me anything. I'm dissapointed only because I rushed to buy a ticket for December and they didn't even ask to see it!! But I know if I didn't have it then they would have asked....so it goes.
- Because I had missed my original flight (but my baggage did not) I had to do some searching at the Frankfurt airport. This was really easy and I was expecting it. Not a big deal.
- Found the train station easy enough, bought a ticket, no problem. Enjoyed only having my carry-on and personal item to transport on my own. HUGE plus.
- I was met in Stuttgart by my family :) Realized that I didn't have much in my carry-on which was usefull
- Baggage delivered by 9 that night!!!! PERFECT
And so you see, it all worked out in the end. In some ways even better :)
That's all for now but I will write soon about what I have been doing since arriving Wednesday. I have to check on some of the spelling and details tho so you'll just have to be patient. But so far I have a lot of free time on my hands so I'll try to be quick about it. I promise.
LOVE LOVE LOVE
K.
