We’re home!
Well, after a very long travel day on Saturday we’re finally home. Our day started out very early in Füssen where we got out the door by 5:00 a.m. Unfortunately for us it was raining quite hard. Thanks to Andrew for driving so carefully in the pouring rain in the dark on a two-lane highway that we had never driven on before. After about 2 hours we finally arrived safely at the Munich airport and turned in the BMW :( We got on the plane no problem and flew two hours back to London. When we finally parked (after the longest taxi ever) we walked about a mile, got on a bus and drove another mile or so to another terminal to catch our international flight. Unfortunately for us, we had to go through security again at the new terminal and then check in with Virgin Atlantic to make sure they transferred our luggage from Lufthansa to our flight home. We turned in our paperwork and hoped for the best. We had a little time to sit down and eat in the airport and do a little last-minute souvenir shopping before heading to the gate. Once we got there, we had a 30 minute delay due to unknown reasons. By this point is was pouring rain. We finally were able to board the plane and we taxied around for a while and by the time we were ready to take off, the skies had cleared and we had smooth sailing almost all the way to LAX. It was a long flight, but we watched movies, caught up on the latest season of Dexter, and napped a little bit. After landing at LAX it took us another 30 minutes to get to our gate because there was some kind of mix-up and the gate they assigned us to was a little too small for our airplane. They did a little creative maneuvering and before long we were parked. Unfortunately after that the Captain made us sit for a while longer while authorities boarded the plane apparently to remove an unruly passenger although he wasn’t in our section so we didn’t get the full story on that one. We got through security pretty quickly and then it was on to customs where we waited with our fingers crossed that our luggage actually did make it on the plane. Sure enough, after a few minutes there it was. We also got through customs easy-peasy and they even let me keep my tulip bulbs. Score!! Andrew’s dad was able to pick us up from the airport and take us home (thanks Dad!) where the pugs were so excited to see us that they were squealing and jumping around out of breath for about a half hour.
It was an amazing trip and we are sad that it’s over, but it definitely won’t be our last. Thanks to everyone who followed our blog while we were gone. We appreciated all your comments and were glad that you got to come with us to Europe once again. Until the next trip…
Cheers,
Chelsie & Andrew
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