We woke up to a blanket of snow outside. It's very cold too. What a day to travel! We finished getting suitcases ready and the taxi picked us up at 8:15. We drove to the airport in the snow. Luckily we only had two suitcases and two computer bags to carry and a bag that I was carrying some things to give to friends and family.
We were well within the time frame to get to the gate with over two hours to spare so I decided to do some company work during this time.
The trip was long! Ten hours to get to Atlanta but we were pleasantly surprised that it only took us an hour to get through customs. Ted wanted to try the burgers at Checkers so we shared one. We sat with a guy from Italy who, surprisingly was on his way to San Francisco. We waited a few hours for our plane from Atlanta to Pittsburgh. Our eyes were hurting and mine were really red because of how tired I was.
The flight was oversold...and the airlines was offering $400 in flight monies but we needed to get to Ohio. So, instead we opted to upgrade to first class. I don't even remember taking off...I was asleep for most of the flight waking up just in time for the landing.
By 11pm we had gotten our luggage, rented the car and were on our third leg of the trip to my parents' home in Ohio. The roads were relatively clear but we were cautious because there was always a possiblity of black ice. As soon as we hit Rt 224, the roads got bad. We went slowly then and the road to my parents' home was even worse than Rt 224!
My parents live in a gated community and we couldn't get the code in correctly the first time but then we finally managed to get it We finally arrived and got our luggage out by 12:15am. It was time for us to sleep!
We stayed up for an hour or so talking to my mom and dad but we were so tired from the trip. And even though it was only about 1am Ohio time, it was 7AM German time! We had been up almost 24 hours!
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