Gulliver's Travels

I arrived at the Minneapolis airport shortly after 11 AM with my bags and a delicious Jimmy John’s sandwich in hand—beach club combo for those who were wondering. My Dad walked me to the check-in desk and we waited a bit before checking in and being informed that my flight was not going to leave until 2 PM. This presented a problem as my flight out of Chicago left was scheduled to leave at 330 PM. They were able to put me on a 1245 PM flight and all was well, and they were able to check my luggage the whole way through. That flight went well and I met up with my traveling partner from La Crosse Kellie in O’Hare. Our 330 PM flight didn’t take off until 5 PM because the plane had been struck by lighting on the way into Chicago, which I thought was pretty cool/badass. The flight went well, about 7 hours long and the seats left something to be desired but the staff took good care of us (2 meals and lots of drinks—including the worlds stiffest vodka orange juice—but oddly no cranberry juice). We were flying Lufthansa, the German national airline, it was pretty good—standard German efficiency—and the only point of note was Sandra Bullock stewardess. She looked uncannily like Sandra Bullock—although it took me most of the flight to put a name with the face—and for some reason she never once smiled the whole flight, don’t know what that was about. Oh, another amusing story, while we were eating our dinner we each had the bottle of beer we were given on our tray/tables. Randomly the guy sitting in front of Kellie reclined his chair which knocked her beer off and caused it to spill all over her. It wasn’t really funny, but if you had been there and seen the absurdity of the situation, you would have laughed too. Plus then Kellie stank of beer the rest of the trip so her roommates probably think she’ll be a raging alcoholic. Anyway, we landed and due to the previously cool lighting strike and subsequent take off delay we had missed our connection from Frankfurt to Prague. We had to wait about 4 hours but Lufthansa gave us a €15 food voucher and then I took a nap while we waited so it wasn’t so bad. The flight into Prague was very short and easy, which by this time was much appreciated as I was feeling pretty traveled out. We met our contact and some other people from our program in the airport and were whisked into a taxi/bus and taken to our various apartments. All in all an easy and not unpleasant trip, plus all my stuff made it without incident.