Thursday, June 18, 2009

Europe - 4 plane tickets and none of them used

We're waiting for a train to take us to Prague, Czech Republic because we missed our flight. Yep, that's right, once again we missed our flight.

Since our last post things have been going really well for us. We visited Paris, Brussels, Brugge, Ghent, Berlin, Weimar (concentration camp), and Dresden without any hiccups. We saw many great sites and took lots of great pictures. Out of these places Brugge was our favorite because the people were nice, the atmostphere was relaxed and the scenery was beautiful.

Then today happened. We woke up on time to catch our 5:54 am train to Frankfurt. Learning from past experiences we asked for directions before leaving the train station. By doing this we found out that we didn't have much time at the Temple but could make it back on time. So we went for it. In hindsight maybe we shouldn't have. When we were done at the Temple a nice member named Matias offered to drive us to the station so we would definitely be on time. And, we were.....thanks to his crazy driving skills (worse than Casey's). We took the only bus to the Frankfurt Hahn Airport which should have arrived with 30 minutes to spare. However along the way the bus driver took a detour because of an accident so we arrived 45 minutes later than the original arrival time. We raced off the bus and got to the counter 5 minutes after the last baggage check-in. We told them what happened and they said, "Sorry, they already drove the bags to the plane. We can't help you." (with a smile on her face) WHAT!!!!!! A few curse words later, another 24 euro bus ticket and an additional 1 hour 45 minute bus ride back to where we started.

We are hoping to catch the 12:45 am night train to get us to Prague and hoping the hostel we missed tonight doesn't charge us.

May your luck be better than ours at the moment.

4 comments:

  1. um, i need photos. my only crazy-summer-vacation-traveling is going to be vicariously though you guys, so i need some pics.

    don't miss any more buses/trains/flights, if you want to save money, but keep it up if you want stories to tell. sheesh

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  2. Good thing those plane tickets were dirt cheap! Hope you are taking tons of pictures!

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  3. Welll....hmmmm..not really sure what to say..All worth it though to have time in the temple i bet...i love you and what great memories to tell your kids one day hahahah

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  4. WHO is Cody, and why is the child named on the card?????????????????????????
    Your card arrived on Thursday.
    Way to be on top of things!!

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