Europe Day 1 – The Ugly

Miriam and I have decided that every time we travel internationally, we need to be prepared for an adventure.� So here is our story.� We arrived at the airport on time, exactly as planned.� At check in they said our flight would be delayed due to weather in Chicago.� Well 3 hours later, our flight was cancelled and we barely made the standby list for a flight that was supposed to leave at 10am.� Just as we get on the plane the pilot tells us we have less than 15 minutes to leave the gate or we won’t be leaving at all.� This wouldn’t be so bad but if we didn’t get out on this flight, we wouldn’t get into Geneva until late Saturday afternoon, in which we would miss the Olympic events we were supposed to go to.� After we pulled out from the gate, the pilot announced we pulled away from the gate with only 2 minutes to spare.� Due to the delays in SLC, we arrived into Chicago 30 mins after our flight to Munich had departed so we had to search for any flight that would get us across the Atlantic.� We found 1 flight leaving for Frankfurt that was departing in 30 minutes and was in another terminal.� We made it to the gate and on the plane just as they closed the doors.