The long flight...

We arrive in Dulles somewhere around 3:30 and find our spot in front of the gate for our flight to Munich. Catherine, Carla, Chris and I have some coffee from Starbucks and Catherine goes to look for a place to make a copy of her passport and insurance information. Weeks before we left, Bert asked us all to have copies of our passport and insurance information for each other in case something happens and we get separated. Well, wouldn’t you know…Catherine is the one that forgets. There is no place in Dulles airport that makes copies so if she gets lost then she is just going to be lost. J The flight finally boards and Chris and I got upgraded to business class because of his frequent flyer miles with United and just because I am lucky. The flight was very uneventful. No turbulence. A few movies… (Pursuit of Happiness, One Night at the Museum and Stranger than Fiction)… at least that is what I was told…I took Tylenol PM when we got on the plane and woke up five hours later. It was a total of eight hours for the flight. We landed in Munich, Germany around 2 am Eastern Standard Time…The only problem was that we are not in the eastern time zone anymore and it is now 8 am in Germany. The breakfast we had on the plane was actually pretty good so none of us our hungry. We take a group picture to celebrate our travels and head to find our next terminal. We walk around for a little while and pass through a security gate and finally a guard points us in the right direction. We get our passports stamped and then for some reason, when we got to another entry point, Bert got his passport stamped again. We hang out in the open area for a little while until it is time to board the plane to Las Palmas. It is about 65 degrees outside in Germany. We have traveled a long way and still have a little ways to go.