Artifacts Found; a Trip Home

I was straightening up my room the other day when I uncovered an ancient artifact: from my summer in Munich. It was then that I realized that I never made a final post about my trip home.

I found the DVD of me being interviewed in the Munich Airport by German news, shortly after the attempted terrorist attack. I posted it on youtube.



So basically to make a long story shorter, as I said in the interview we were turned around mid-flight and sent back to Munich. We spent the next six hours standing in lines and running around the airport to stand in more lines, hoping that one of them might get us a ticket home. Eventually we did find something.

We spent the night at the Munich airport hotel. It was quite nice and free, because our plane had been turned around. Everyone else in the airport who had not gotten on their plane yet had nowhere to go. People were sleeping in terminals.

That next morning we got on a plane for London, had a long layover, and went throught the most painstaking security check yet. We were not allowed any liquids, and everything had to be in clear plastic bags. Not even books were allowed. By the time that our next plane took off for Boston, we knew that we would not make the connecting flight.

We spent the night at a Marriot in Boston, flew to D.C., waited in horrific lines, then finally caught a plane home. We were quite tired by then.

And our exchange students had been waiting at our house for three days.