I'm Back!
Hello Everyone!
I am home, back in the States. Man, the trip was something. 18 hour trips are tiring. I had a very good 10 hour flight from Vienna to Atlanta, my seat mate was a very nice older man who had been sailing in Croatia (doesn't that sound really fun?) with his wife and two daughters. We got along really well. I knit a good bit of my apron, and slept and read a little.
Then, I went through the human rat maze that is customs at Atlanta. Think of rat mazes that twist and turn for no reason. That is what I had to go through to get my passport stamped and luggage approved. By the way? Picking up and rechecking your luggage is stupid. I only say this because my luggage was heavy enough to bruise me, and the airline lost one of my bags at my final destination.
Atlanta, however, was not through making my life difficult. My flight, which I had worried about missing while waiting a long time to pick up my soon-to-be-rechecked luggage, was delayed. Not because of the weather, but because the flight crew was late. How late? Three hours.
Honestly, I'm just grateful we got anywhere, the flight is just a blurred memory of changing positions to go back to sleep. I did get home at a reasonable time by their standards, 10:30 pm, but in Vienna, it was 3 am. To say that I was tired is understating it gracefully.
But I got a fairly good night's rest, and am jumping back into life with both feet. I will hopefully be working later today, and am preparing to go to New Orleans for teacher training at the end of the week. Don't ask, I don't know what I was thinking. At least I won't be bored, and there will be semi-interesting things to blog about.
I should be off now.
Greeny
I am home, back in the States. Man, the trip was something. 18 hour trips are tiring. I had a very good 10 hour flight from Vienna to Atlanta, my seat mate was a very nice older man who had been sailing in Croatia (doesn't that sound really fun?) with his wife and two daughters. We got along really well. I knit a good bit of my apron, and slept and read a little.
Then, I went through the human rat maze that is customs at Atlanta. Think of rat mazes that twist and turn for no reason. That is what I had to go through to get my passport stamped and luggage approved. By the way? Picking up and rechecking your luggage is stupid. I only say this because my luggage was heavy enough to bruise me, and the airline lost one of my bags at my final destination.
Atlanta, however, was not through making my life difficult. My flight, which I had worried about missing while waiting a long time to pick up my soon-to-be-rechecked luggage, was delayed. Not because of the weather, but because the flight crew was late. How late? Three hours.
Honestly, I'm just grateful we got anywhere, the flight is just a blurred memory of changing positions to go back to sleep. I did get home at a reasonable time by their standards, 10:30 pm, but in Vienna, it was 3 am. To say that I was tired is understating it gracefully.
But I got a fairly good night's rest, and am jumping back into life with both feet. I will hopefully be working later today, and am preparing to go to New Orleans for teacher training at the end of the week. Don't ask, I don't know what I was thinking. At least I won't be bored, and there will be semi-interesting things to blog about.
I should be off now.
Greeny