Today is travel day! I am so nervous. All of this unknown. I ran around like a chicken with my head cut off yesterday. We told the the Monahan's that we would go to Hunter's birthday. It was a welcome stress reliever. Steve and I bowled a few rounds, had a few drinks and ate like pigs. Geez, how do you spell emotinal eating? Anyhow, back to the travel day...
I set 2 alarms and had the hotel giving us a wake up call. I know, I'm a nut but I wasn't going to miss this plane. While I was drying my hair, apparently Steve's cellphone went off. It was Delta calling to tell us that our flight had been canceled and that we were now going to be on a flight that left 30 minutes earlier. You thought there was stress before, LOOK OUT! We kicked it into high gear and headed out the door.
We checked our stuff in and headed toward the gate. We were doing great for time. Unfortunately, we packed our nice outfit for meeting with the Ministry of Education and had bathroom supplies with us. Well, the airport doesn't like this anymore. My carryon bag had a ton of "no no's." This gal was going to take it all. I knew the tight schedule that we were on and I was not going to be able to purchase any more anytime soon. I just lost it. I sat down in a chair and cried. Such a girl thing to do but my stress level just ran over. The gal went to get her supervisor. He came back and was telling me the "rules" which i could really care less about. I explained to him about what we were doing, showed him my passport and my visa to Russia. I even pulled out JESUS! Thank you very much Lou Velazquez! This man must have thought I was a nut. Nope, just desperate. The funny thing is, I had just shown steve the night before my makeup kit because it is so small. I said, some woman have a ton of makeup...LOOK, I just have this. I then followed it up by telling him not to screw with my hairproducts. Well, that's exactly what the airport wanted to do. Long story short, I somehow got the guy to let me go. Thank you very much. Of course as we are walking out of the security area, Steve looks at me in his best George Lopez accent and asks, "why you crying?" I just shook my head.
The flight to New York was pretty uneventful. It was United so it was cramped and small. It was a bumpy landing and I of course wanted to throw up. Made it out ok, but was feeling like crap. Wow. This long journey had only started and we already had a few hurdles to jump over.
We made our way through the airport and found our way to the international section. I was able to check my carryon bag with all my "bad" stuff here so I didn't have to go through the same ordeal again...however, Just so you know, the security people won't let you have water anymore either (the hair products though were safely checked though so all was well). I bought 2 waters at LAX and they took them away. Told me I had to buy it in the terminal. No wonder I like RVing better. Steve was able to score us the emergency exit seats for our 9 hour flight to Moscow. This was a relief. We got some lunch at a chili's in the airport and waited for our flight.
The flight over really wasn't bad. We sleep quite a bit knowing it would be 11am there when we landed. So far we were still in tack and not even halfway done with traveling to our desination.
Stay tuned for day 2!
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