Thursday night my sister Trish took us to the airport for our 7:05pm flight. Of course once we cleared security we discovered our flight was delayed until 7:55pm. We decided to eat dinner at Ruby Tuesday's in the airport. Emily stopped texting long enough to eat but that was about it. For a teenager who is constantly texting it is hard to imagine how she will live the next 3 weeks without her phone! But we all know she can do it!
One of the worst things for me and not having a phone is the inability to tell time! LOL Another note to future self: Don't forget to pack a watch! Since we have left the States, I have been living in a timeless limbo! Believe it or not there are not a lot of clocks in airports! I think they don't want you to realize how close you are to missing your flight!
Finally we boarded our little puddle jumper in Knoxville and made it to Atlanta. Had a little time to kill so we looked around a few shops in the Atlanta airport and then headed back to the gate because boarding was supposed to start at 9:45pm... hmmph, I think the first people boarded at 10:10pm (there was a clock right above the boarding door -- bad move Delta/KLM, people really don't need to know how long they are standing in line!) We were in row 27 out of 44. Sat beside a nice gentleman from Atlanta. The plane had 3 seats on the left, 3 in the middle, and 3 on the right.. amazing that something so big can soar through the air as fast and seemingly effortless as it does.
The flight was great (other than the extremely loud grandmother with her 7 yr grandchildren sitting right behind us -- the boy kept kicking Em's seat but finally all 3 of them fell asleep!!). Emily slept most of the flight, I dozed here and there. They did end up serving us a snack (yummy almonds), dinner (chicken pasta), and breakfast(eggs, hash browns, yogurt, and fruit). Even though our info only said we would be served breakfast. The movie selection was good.. but Em watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (again) and I watched Gnomeo and Juliet (loved it!!).. then we both watched episodes of Glee too..
Arrived in Amsterdam at 1pm local time (which is only 6 hours ahead of East TN).. walked over to the awesome Citizen M hotel where Emily promptly turned on her computer and started chatting and I took a nap :-)
Then began our journey into the Old City of Amsterdam.... that blog will have to wait until tonight since our hotel room looks like a hurricane hit it even though we have only been here less than 24 hours and we need to get moving to catch our flight to Bucharest.
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