So, I have a little time this morning and thought that blogging about some of our travel adventures would be fun. First, let me just say that Bob and I are NOT travelers! We both have only flown ONCE and it was a nonstop commuter flight to Orlando! (I know that doesn't really count since we didn't even have to pick up our luggage!). Anyway, you can imagine how much of a learning curve there was for us as we made this trip 4,000 miles, and 3 flights away from our home!
First stop, Pittsburgh International Airport...no problem! We got there in plenty of time, made it through check-in where we met a young woman who has two sisters adopted from Eatern Europe, made it through security (no body scans or pat-downs, woo hoo!), had lunch and found our gate! We departed on time and arrived in Newark early!!!
Second stop, Newark...okay, this is where we started to see our "innocence"! So, we had a 3 hour layover here (which ended up being 4, because we were early from our first flight). So, we hung out on the councourse, had some Starbucks, read, listened to music and called home to say "hello"...we continuously checked the board for our gate but it wasn't being announced. Let's just say that by 5:00, we were getting pretty nervous and Bob had this "gut feeling" (God speaking?) that he should go to the information desk and ask about our flight. Thank you God, because we were in the wrong part of the airport and we needed to go like a mile, through security and find our gate! Our flight was departing at 6:10!!!! So, we hoofed it across the airport, through security (with one body scan-Jamie) and to our gate just as they were boarding our section!!!! [long sigh.........]
The flight from Newark to Frankfurt was "tight" and I don't mean time-wise, I mean it was economy class and there was no room to move! I was in the middle of Bob and I really nice guy from Paris. I'm glad he was nice, because we were VERY close for 6.5-7 hours! Between drinks, snacks, dinner, movie, and breakfast...I didn't get much sleep. That would have been fine accept for the time change which made it 7:00 a.m. when we arrived rather than 1:00 a.m. I was tired, and here were all these wonderful German's wide awake starting their day! So, again we were ahead of schedule! This time we knew to immediately find our where departures were and get there! Oh my goodness, Frankfurt's airport is huge!! We walked for what seemed like miles to get to our departure gate, but at least we had lots of time!
Our last flight was quite an adventure as well. We were drive across the tarmack by shuttle bus to get to our plane. It was small and overcrowded. We were late getting off because they had loaded some of the wrong passengers! Oh my! But, alas we made it to Riga! 30 minutes late, exhausted and thrilled to be here!!!!
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