Wow! We were up early. Everyone was up though and getting ready. Alex and Ramona had frozen Bretzel to make for us at home. This reminded me of us in the south making frozen biscuits. They're good at home! The Bretzel were also very, very good this way! We had our last Brotzeit meal in Germany for breakfast. We've gotten very used to eating this way.
We had brought an extra empty bag to load up with stuff for the trip back and that's all we ended up needing. The luggage all worked out very well and wasn't too much to manage on the walk to the train station. I still remember my struggle with luggage on my way from my apartment to the train station 19 years ago - I had ALL I could carry! We did ok. There was some excitement as we got down to the train platform and realized that none of us had stopped to buy subway tickets. Alex dashed up the stairs and came dashing back just as the train pulled up and opened the doors. We made it just in time!
There is a train stop inside the airport, but we still had to walk a good distance to get upstairs and around and across to the Delta counter. This was the only crowded counter in the whole airport of course. We got checked in ok. Alex and Ramona stayed with us for a few minutes after checking in so we could talk and thank them. We decided to head on through the security check so we wouldn't have to worry about the clock.
The plane left a few minutes late and they warned us in advance that we would be making an extra refueling stop in Maine on the way back. This should (and did) only delay us 1 hour on our arrival time. I sent a text message to Asaad to warn him that we would be delayed.
The flight was very long - 11 hours - and since it was in the middle of the day, it was almost impossible to get much sleep. They showed three movies and fed us several times. It wasn't such a bad flight. At one point, the boys were sitting together behind us and the flight attendant spoke to them in German. They thought that was pretty cool.
Back in Atlanta, our friend Asaad was there waiting for us. He helped us with our luggage and brought us to our car! He had taken such care of the car too - checking the oil, fluids and tires before driving back to Atlanta. He was a sight for sore eyes too! While the rest of the family fell asleep, Asaad stayed awake with me in the front and we came back home to Auburn.
Home again, but we'll be going back to Germany as soon as we can!
Long flight - all day - three movies - still not bad
Asaad!
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