Traveling

What. A. Day.

After having problems at the Dulles Airport with the weight limit on my main bag, I ended up checking two bags and getting that taken care of.  Luckily, I made it through security and got to my gate just about on time to board the plane.  I rode next to a snarky Asian lady who wouldn’t move for these old Indian people, but it was only a 45 minute flight so it wasn’t bad.  I waited in JFK for Lloyd to meet me, browsing shops and looking for something to eat.  My gate wasn’t posted until about an hour after I got there, and by the time I went to go find my gate, I had to run around once again to pay for the extra baggage and deal with a lady who was clearly Polish and spoke very thickly Polishly accented English.  After having finally figured that out, I was quite hungry and went to my gate to get something to eat.  There was a Buffalo Wild Wings at the gate, so I went and ate there, still looking out for Lloyd.  We finally met up and had a drink and some food, and went to board our plane.

As we were walking down the walkway (which literally was a walk way…we felt like we were walking halfway to Warsaw as it was) we saw the plane… and noticed it was really small.  The plane ended up not having personal screens for each person, but only having one screen in the front for everyone… Mishap number one.  Mishap number two, I show up to my seat and someone is in it.  They actually ended up moving me and Lloyd to a different row where it was 3 seats but just us which was great considering the circumstances.  Lloyd passed out before we even took off, due to a nice Benadryl cocktail, and I was left to my own devices.  I figured I’d watch the shows/movies that were coming on, because when I’d read online, it said that the movie on the flight was supposed to be Sherlock Holmes, which I was excited for.  Turns out they actually were showing Nanny McPhee, and turns out our whole seating section’s headsets weren’t working… awesome again.  It was fine, though, in the long run.  I stayed up past dinner, and then took some Benadryl myself and went to sleep on and off for a couple hours.  After breakfast (a very strange meal: ham, tomatoes, cucumber piece, a tiny dollop of cottage cheese, and two kinds of bread) I did fall asleep quite heavily until the plane touched down here in Warsaw which is where we are waiting now for the next couple hours.  It’s currently 9:22 here, and our flight (another LOT Airlines flight…. We’re thrilled about that part) isn’t till 11:10. 

Also, as a side note, for those of you that I lied to about Tallinn being 6 hours ahead, it is actually 7 hours ahead… sorry about that.  I’m slow.

Anyway, that’s all for now.  More on this later.  Ta ta from Fredrick Chopin Airport!

Maintain,
Virginia