May 6th, 2006

Travel day was an intersting and long day. We left an hour late, therefore, we missed our connecting flight from Frankfurt to Munich. It was alright b/c I had 9 hours on the airplane from DFW to Frankfurt to relax before having to deal with that. My favorite part of our travel day came when we had been on the plane for like 4 or 5 hours. Mam-maw and I changed sets so she could stand out in the aisle for a little bit. She sat down and the lady in front of her laid the set down. Mam-maw didn't know what to do about that. She said (loudly) "man I don't have room for my knees now!" Here comes my favorite part. She didn't like the situation so she just pushed that lady's set right back up. I just sat in my set with my head down laughing. The lady either didn't mind or didn't notice b/c she didn't say a word and that set never came back down.

Another fun part of the trip was due to the fact that Mam-maw can't hear all that well so she didn't understand a lot of things the stewardess was saying. She looked all confused or would answer wrong. I had to become her translater.

We got to Frankfurd fine and it was really no problem to figure out what to do next I just didn't know how Mam-maw would handle the situation. She did good. She went along with me as I navigated our way through the airport to the ticket desk and figured out what to do next. They had already rerouted us through Vienna to Krakow instead of going to Munich. After that everything went smoothly. When we got to Krakow, only 5 people's suitcases out of about 15 of us arrived. Who knows why?!? Mam-maw didn't freak out when our bags didn't show up and she was very patient with me when I had to go and claim them and get that all figured out. The bags arrived at our door at 9pm (Polish time) so all was good.