söndag 28 december 2014

Nightmare start

4.50 local time. In bed next two two little ladies who are watching "sand kasteel" on you tube. Arrived in the apartment at South beach 4.5 hours ago instead of 1.5 day ago as we were supposed to. 

Let me start from the beginning, the 26th. We woke up at 4, the taxi had missed our booking so we were slightly late to the airport. There Justus could not be checked in as he had mistaken an O for a 0 on his online US visa application. And when he was doing a new visa application it took him 45 minutes instead if the normal 5, so we missed our flight. What to do? Log in to flygresor.se and buy 4 new bloody expensive tickets for a flight a few hours later. To make a long story short the electronic travel agent did not release our e-tickets in time, so we missed that flight as well. What to do? Go home, microwave some blodpudding for the ladies and book a third flight. So instead of going 6.30 to Berlin, we left 19.35 to Zurich. 
Arrived in the airport hotel at midnight, woke up 6.30 next day to go back to the airport.

Yesterday started well, amazing family lounge and really friendly people (not quite our Arlanda experience.)
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We boarded our plane to Miami... And sat there for 5.5 hours without moving an inch. Snow was the problem. Somehow we and our fellow passengers survived the longest trip in our lifetime and arrived in Miami about 2 AM Swedish time.

 I will not bore you about dteails about in which order our luggage came, or how long the queue was for the car rental, but at midnight local time (6 am Swedish) we could go to bed. 4 hours later the girls woke up. Time to go out and find some breakfast.