Thursday 9 August 2012

Here we go!-July 30th, 2012


Today was our first day of our excursion. We drove from Brookings to Sioux Falls and arrived at the airport around 5pm. At 5:30pm we had checked our bags, said goodbye, and made our way to our gate. We were scheduled to leave at 6:50 pm, but the plane we were waiting for had to go around a storm in Denver and was late arriving. We didn’t leave the airport until about an hour later. We were finally in the air and it was a short flight to Chicago. When we arrived at the Chicago airport we had to wait on the runway for about 45 minutes for a terminal to open up so we could get off the plane. The majority of the people flying with us missed their connecting flight. Once we got off we had to rush to get to our next gate which was on a completely different side of the airport. We made it just in time to get our tickets and passports checked. We then boarded a huge Lufthansa plane. There were mini TV screens on the back of everyone’s chair so we could all watch our own movie, TV show, or listen to music. We were fed well on the plane, but I also didn’t get much sleep because it was very uncomfortable. The flight was roughly 8 hours long and we didn’t arrive to Frankfurt until the middle of the afternoon the next day.

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