That's "Hello" in Danish...we are in Copenhagen, Denmark after a grueling day of traveling. Thank God we made it safely! Both flights were quite turbulent. The first was on an Embraer 170, which seats 70, and I could feel every little gust of wind as it knocked the plane around on ascent and descent. I was very scared, but I'm a chicken when it comes to flying anyway. Nonetheless, by God's grace we arrived at Dulles airport in Washington, D.C. safely. I must say, Dulles is the most poorly configured airport I've ever been in. I've only been in about 9 or 10 airports, but Dulles is the clear leader in my Crappiest Airport rankings. I'll have to write more on why I feel this way some other time. Anyway, due to Dulles' most righteous suckness, we barely made it to our gate in time to board the Scandinavian Airlines flight to CPH. Our plane for this flight was an Airbus 330-200 (I think it seats 250 some-odd passengers), which was OK. Turbulence on ascent and descent wasn't too bad, but right over the mid-atlantic (about 4 hours into our flight) we hit some truly horrible turbulence which lasted for a good while (seemed like an hour, probably much less than that, though). That subsided, and then we encountered equally horrible turbulence about 100 miles away from Scotland. Add in the constantly screaming/crying/whining toddler 2 rows ahead and you can probably imagine why I got maybe a total of 1 hour of sleep during the entire flight. I'm pooped! But I drank a lot of coffee in order to stay awake after our flight so that I could be alert for our baggage retrieval, taxi ride, and hotel check-in. Luckily, our room was available right away so we didn't have to wait until 2PM to check-in. Kristen is sleeping, but I am still feeling the effects of the coffee, although I can tell I'm winding down already.
Our cab ride over was uneventful, though I got the distinct feeling that our cabbie was taking the long way to our hotel and running up the fare in the process. I didn't tip him, partly due to my suspicion that he was ripping me off, and partly due to the fact that the smallest Danish denomination I had was a 50 Kroner bill, which amounts to approximately 8 US dollars. I'm not about to tip the cabbie 8 dollars, especially not if I think he's ripping me off! I could tell he wasn't happy about not being tipped, and that probably didn't do much for his impression of Americans, but c'est la vie. ;)
Somewhere in the process of retrieving our baggage I got a small cut on my left index finger, which is really no big deal. However, upon signing a paper to check-in to the hotel, I realized I'd smudged the paper with my blood in several spots. I'm sure the receptionist was not pleased about that. Still, one bright spot is that neither the taxi driver nor the hotel receptionist noticed the spelling mistake that American Express so kindly provided on my company credit card (apparently, Amex thinks I am Mr. Pachico).
OK, more later. I'm feeling tired now.
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Congratulations!!!! I am so happy for you guys and we will keep all 3 of you in our prayers!
Posted by Casey | 1/19/2006 1:22 PM
I just googled vorbis -ogg to see what would come up and I found your blog. I find this odd because my blog is called "Blogg vorbis" ( http://www.treyhunner.com ). This is bizarre. Nice blog name?
Posted by T-Ray | 2/16/2006 4:51 AM