Traveling Woes..

Bright eyed and eager to go, we arrived at the Minneapolis airport, unaware of the trials ahead on our very first day of traveling..

Our flight took 7 and a half hours to get to Paris, France (after getting on an hour delayed flight in Minneapolis). On the plane we enjoyed a crying/screaming toddler who was sick and had an ear infection. The food was pretty good, and we maybe got an hour of touch-and-go sleep during the flight. When we touched down we sat on the Tarmac for 2 and a half hours waiting just to get up to the unloading gate for the to get off the plane (because they had a snow storm and no one came in to work so the airport was way understaffed). We ended up standing in line for almost two hours trying to get a flight change because our flight to Slovenia was cancelled. Wandered aimlessly from place to place trying to switch flights and figure out where to go, with no wifi at the airport to guide our weary souls. All our luggage is still missing, and the planes aren't even all unloaded from the morning or the afternoon flights after us (as of when we landed at 9:30am till 5pm when we left on a hotel shuttle) and we don't know when or if it will get unloaded today. Literally hundreds of people waiting hours for luggage that never got unloaded. Been up for more than 24 hours with less than 3 hours of sleep, an am get spotty wifi at a little hotel to write this blog. We can't even stay here because our shuttle doesn't run early enough in the morning for our next flight to Germany and then Slovenia. Hundreds of people looking for lost luggage at the airport in twenty different languages-and the planes from this morning not even fully unloaded because people couldn't get to the airport to work was quite the sight...all because of a snowstorm-too bad it wasn't Minnesota, that'd be a normal day. ;) Got a hotel room comped, but can only enjoy it for a few hours because the morning shuttle leaves at 5am and our flight is at 6:45 to Munich, Germany and we have to get there early to look for our luggage and figure out when/where we will get that if it is still missing-so we will head back to the airport to sleep overnight with the last shuttle at 11:40pm. Free dinner starts at 7pm and it is currently 6pm and we are just sitting down at our hotel. To top it off we are running on not even 3 hours of sleep...but we still have our hopes up, and good attitudes that things will look up.

What a day and it's not even over...I guess I signed up for an adventure. Hopefully tomorrow brings easier travels.