Grounded

12/21/10 - 9:13am Munich, Germany
We are currently sitting on the tarmac in Munich, Germany...which is cool, because I've never been to Germany before. But we are supposed to be in Frankfurt. We got here around 8am. Frankfurt was closed because of snow, so we were re-routed until it opens. It re-opened around 9am but there are 50 planes sitting here, waiting to refuel and take off for Frankfurt...it could be another hour or so.

Should make for an interesting day - unfortunately I don't think we'll get to go into Frankfurt and see the city over our layover now. Bum.

10am Update - Munich, Germany
The captain just announced it would take at least 5 hours to get refueled so our flight is cancelled and busses are coming out to take us into the terminal. Adventure rocks!!!!

7:02pm - still in Munich, Germany
So we are still at the airport in Munich...11 hours later and counting. We have a flight straight to Estonia. It was supposed to be at 7:25pm. It's delayed to 7:55pm. Not a big deal.
We've spent most of the day here sitting on the tarmac (in the plane), standing in lines for rescheduling, and walking around just outside the airport - there's a cool Christmas-y type thing going on out there - ice skating rink, various booths of food vendors and craft vendors.
We are trying to stay awake until bed tonight so we can defeat jet leg. Running on 30+ hours with maybe a cumulative 3 hrs of sleep mixed in. Most as sitting on the ground with a dazed look. Others of us go thru stages of slap happiness.
This is fun!! It's all part of the adventure!!

--we got in to Tallinn, Estonia around midnight (local- 7 hrs ahead of eastern time zone). Got to our place and in bed by 2am.


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