who would've thought a trip to europe in november would be so fantastic?!?! despite some crappy weather, though, it was just that. and of course, leave it to me to put off blogging about my trip until 2 weeks later, but let's just say work has been keeping me plenty busy.
i primarily went over for an ARINC security working group meeting in toulouse, france, but then decided to stay a few extra days and travel to amsterdam. we (tim and steve from united also went on the trip) flew to frankfurt (FRA) and then hopped a lufthansa flight to toulouse (TLS) for the meeting. then it was back to frankfurt to meet up with elena and take the ICE train to amsterdam (AMS). all in all, we were gone for 9 days and visited 3 countries -- not too damn shabby. so here's the lowdown:
the flight over
on our flight to FRA, tim, steve, and i all got upgraded to 1st class, which on a united 777 is quite a kickass experience. needless to say, i took all possible advantage of the comfort and got my sleep on. mucho thanks to laura for having her birthday party @ sugar the night before, made the morning fantastic. :) of course, i still made time to watch anchor man and snack on "crab- and nut-crusted mahi mahi," but can you blame me? i honestly was a bit sad to land in frankfurt, but it was time to get down to business. unfortunately for tim and me, we wound up getting stuck at the frankfurt airport all day, since the flights to TLS were overbooked, and even w/ our business passes there wasn't room... and just to add to the fun, when we tried to get our bags (we'd checked the rollies so we didn't have to deal with them all day) we were told they had been set aside for the first flight in the morning. great. at least we had toiletries w/ us, and were ok for the night.
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