November 10, 2008

Home Again

After either no sleep or very little sleep we were all up and ready to go. We checked out of the hotel and walked to the Metro. The gates has not yet been opened so we waited for them to be opened by a Metro employee.

Once inside we caught our train. Turned out we got the wrong one, but got off 3 stops later and waited the six minutes for the airport train. No harm at all - it was just too early in the morning. We arrived at the terminal and said our goodbyes. Didi and Helen headed to terminal 1. Didi to catch her flight and Helen to store her luggage while she went to the US Embassy to get a new passport. Russ and I headed to terminal 2 to check in for our flight. We checked in with no problem, but she was unable to print out a boarding pass for our connecting flight in Munich since they are on seperate systems. We then walked to our gate to wait for our flight. We must have dozed off, because we missed our gate change announcement and had to walk very quickly across the terminal to catch our flight.

Once in Munich we had an hour to catch our connection. So we ran to passport control and had our passports stamped, once in the terminal tried to get our boarding passes and were told to go directly to the gate so we ran to security. There we encountered a major roadblock. We waited in a very long line to answer the security questions and then went through security before waiting in another line at the gate to get our boarding passes. Once on we had no more than 5 minutes before they shut the door and pushed back. Russ also had to deal with the fact they double booked his seat.

The flight and drive home were uneventful. The trip was great and so worth every hassle along the way.