In Flight

Day 1:

After a night of not much sleep, The European Adventure began.  Day 1 was not exactly a fun travel day; it consisted of 12 long hours in flight. The first flight was from Sioux Falls to Chicago. Due to the snow storm the night before and morning of, I expected our first flight to be delayed. Lucky for us, we were on time and off to Chicago at about 11am. We arrived in Chicago around 12:30 to wait out the 4 hour layover. This was my first time being in Chicago. Even though I didn’t leave the airport, I still count it as being there. Chicago is home to Oprah and I was just hoping to miraculously cross paths with her. J I, along with most of the group, grabbed a quick bite to eat before the second half of the journey was set to begin. We left Chicago a little after 5pm and were scheduled to arrive in Paris at about 8:30am. This was not only the longest flight I had been on, but also the first time I had flown over any great body of water. Let’s just say I was a little bit nervous. Overall, the flight went well. At the most, I got about an hour of sleep. The plane was quite large and not even close to full. They played two movies and an assortment of TV shows to help pass time. The first movie shown was Eat Pray Love and the second was Shrek. We could also plug in headphones and listen to a variety of music stations (most were in French, so this didn’t do me much good). After crossing the Atlantic, we finally arrived in Paris to begin day 2.