Tuesday to Thursday

We left home on Tuesday morning and arrived on Wednesday about 1pm local time. The flights were good overall, considering I’ve never flown overseas and had no idea what to expect. We had a delay in WDC for an hour due to a storm, so we got into Frankfurt about an hour late. We had to get our passports stamped and go through security again. It would have been no problem as we had flights with 3 hours between then BUT they made me throw away my Diet Coke I got on the other side of security in Atlanta!! I bought 2 – 20 oz bottles for “emergency” as they do not sell Diet Pepsi or Diet Coke here, my 2 favorite drinks. After getting over that we had to scramble and repack our carry ons as the final leg of 3 flights told us our carry ons were too big and we had to check them and they would go to baggage claim at the end. No way were our papers going out of my sight so quick scramble as they were ready to load us on a bus to take us to the plane.

Once we got here, we met the NHFC representative we needed to deliver papers to for summer hosting children  and we were very glad to see Petr, the owner of our apartment who had agreed to pick us up.

Did I happen to mention they drive VERY fast over hear. We considered renting a car and driving into the country side, but quickly changed our minds.

Once we got settled in, we tried to stay up as late as possible. Which for me, ended up being 7pm local time. I’d been up well over 24 hours by that time with about a 30 min. nap on the last leg of the flights.  Well, the next thing I knew it was 12noon the next day, Thursday.  We are so very thankful we planned an extra day into our trip to rest or have for plane delays. More about WHY this is important for each family to do and how it affects others coming up in my next post.

We did not venture far Thursday, but by 5pm we were tired of bread and water we had here, so we looked at a map and decided to wander right down the street.  We thought we could make it to a McDonalds about a mile away. We wanted to wait to shop for groceries when we had our son so he could show us his favorite foods.

Well, we literally ran right into a MCD on the way. Not the one the map showed, but one very close to us. And then coming out of there I looked up and saw the word Rimi. A food store!! So we went ahead and got some basics like bread, cheese, fruits, veggies and water.  And did I mention everyone walks everywhere, even with groceries!!??? Yup, we were tired by the time we got back to the apartment.

After Skyping with the kids it was time to try to sleep. We still had not talked to David since he Skyped us about 40 minutes before we were leaving for the airport. His Skype was off and cell phone was off, so we just really “needed” to see him.