It's all just one big adventure, full of mishaps, mistakes, and some failure, but mostly excitement, unexpected joy, and some surprises!
We stayed in Dublin last night, as updated on this blog previously. Originally our plane was supposed to leave this morning at 6 for Frankfurt. Our departure time got pushed back to 6:50, so we boarded at 6:30. Our plane left Dublin at 7:40. Originally, when our flight was leaving at 6:50, our connecting flight to Riga was going to leave 20 minutes after we landed. Well, we left 60 minutes late, so we missed our flight to Riga.
United provided us with meal vouchers, since we're in the airport for 8 hours. While we were waiting for the vouchers, there was a security breach of some sorts, and we were cut off from the rest of the airport - we had a small room to stand in and wait until they diverted us through another terminal - about a mile away.
When we did finally get our vouchers for the meals, they were only 8 euros a piece, which, for today's exchange rate, equals about $10.37. That's not a whole lot to work with, especially for being in here for 8 hours. Karen, God bless her, got us all one extra voucher, and our total is 24 euros for the day.
Now, finally, we've figured everything out. It's 2:18 PM local time, and we are calming down a little bit, which is nice. More later...
Later...
Alright, we finally, FINALLY landed in Latvia. Oh my goodness, it feels wonderful to stretch out on a bed and to be out of the planes. After lunch, I took a nap on an airport chair. Benefit of being 5'1": I can curl up almost anywhere and fall asleep. I believe I slept for about 2 hours, and then we grabbed dinner and sat at our gate. Michael and I practiced some Russian - we've gotten decent..ish... at counting! We were pretty proud of ourselves.
Tomorrow we have a long drive into Lithuania - hopefully we'll be able to see the youth group kids from last year! Alright, finally bed time here - good night!
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