The airplane flight could not have gone more smoothly.Early Wednesday morning, we ran next door to say goodbye to our kitties and then said goodbye to our grandpa and grandma Oskarson. A few minutes later our friend, Mrs. Hrinowich met us in grandma's driveway. It's good thing that she was available to take us because we needed every inch of her twelve-passenger van! Total, we had sixteen pieces of luggage. United Airlines allows each passenger to check two suitcases but they can weigh no more than fifty pounds each. Mom was up until midnight last night weighing and re-weighing the big bags on our bathroom scale and moving things around so that each bag weighed between 48 and 49 pounds. We were also each allowed one carry on and one purse or laptop-type bag.
Checking in and security went very smoothly. They made us take our shoes off!? They stopped my dad and checked him with an electronic wand and took a swab of the palm of his hands. Maybe they thought he was smuggling something under those bandages.
The plane ride was LONG. We were served two meals and two snacks. They showed four movies but none of them were kids movies! Well that’s not exactly true. They showed Hotel for Dogs . . . starting at 1:00 in the morning after all the kids were asleep!
Once we were on the ground, we sailed through customs and it took us less that five minutes to find all of our luggage. We were met by two people from the school who drove us to our apartment.
-Annika & Jack
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