An American In Paris

Hi friends and family!

I have sleepily but safely arrived in Europe. Wahooooo! This is my very first trip across the pond and I feel doubly sophisticated because I traveled all by myself. My adventure was semi- eventful. Nothing too terrible though. I arrived at Orlando International Airport around 11:30. And good thing too-- because Delta kinda hassled me about my passport. You see, if you change your name you're supposed to renew your passport with the name change like three months after your wedding. But really - who does that? Not me. I never look at the thing until I'm about to travel and at that point it's waaay too late to send for a new one. Soooo, basically I showed up with one last name on my ticket and another on my passport. (This didn't present a problem two weeks ago when I flew to the Dominican Republic, but it did cost me about 20 minutes of explaining at the Delta counter on Tuesday). But the fantastic thing is that because the agent was so uber concerned with my identity she didn't seem to notice that my luggage was waaay overweight. (I won't even tell you how much. It's embarrassing:)). So that 20 minutes of talking saved me 80 bucks. Not a bad exchange rate in my opinion:).

Aaanywho, my first flight was really late and thus landed in Atlanta ten minutes before my connection to Munich. I prayed a lot and ran a lot but still didn't make it. I won't lie, I was irritated. I mean, I had just run to the opposite side of the airport to find NO plane there. But I got in line at the Delta counter and tried to have a good attitude or, at the very least, a remotely pleasant look on my face. My irritation quickly subsided when I learned that Delta was going to reroute me to fly to Munich from...PARIS. What?! A layover in Paris. I'll take it!



Everything in Paris was just as I thought it would be. The landscape was beautiful, the airport smelled funny and the Parisians were rude. I love France:)




I was there for a couple of hours. Just long enough to pick up a couple trinkets;) and then catch my final flight to Munich! This month I will be staying in the village of Keifersfelden in Bavaria. It is ridiculously beautiful here. I've never seen anything like it. I can see the Alps from my bedroom window. How unbelievable is that?

Here are a few pics of my view of Germany from the plane. So glad I picked a window seat!










Check back for pictures of the beautiful village of Keifersfelden!!

LOVE!
s i d.