Monday July 30, 2007

Well this morning we had to wake up pretty early so that we could pack up the last of our stuff and grab a quick breakfast before going to the airport. We reserved a shuttle to the airport for 6am so we had to hurry a bit but made it with time to spare. At the airport we had to wait for the Delta counters to open up so we could check in so that was kinda boring. When it was our turn we had to go through a checkpoint with an airline employee that asked us a lot of questions about our bags which kind of made us a bit nervous but we didn't have anything to worry about. We made it to our gate after having to go through 2 security checkpoints. Our first flight from Frankfurt to Atlanta was about 10 hours long and we slept most of the way except during the movies we wanted to watch, and when it was time to eat. When we arrived in Atlanta it was so nice to be off the airplane and to be able to navigate easily and understand the people around us. At the same time it was sad because we missed Germany. We got through customs safely and without problems so that was really nice. We barely even had to stand in line, it went surprisingly fast. We stopped on our way to our gate at a news stand to get some magazines for our next long plane ride. It was really exciting and comforting at the gate to see local people and hear them speaking. We used our cell phones for the first time in a 7 weeks to call our families to let them know we had arrived safely in the United States. Tasha and I had about 2 hours in Atlanta before our flight left for Hawaii so we just hung around and looked at all the different people. Our flight to Honolulu was smooth with only a few choppy spots and a couple crying babies. Overall the flight wasn't to bad except the food tasted pretty nasty. We were so excited when we landed in Honolulu because we had finally made it home. Everything worked out well and we got picked up at the airport and went to Tasha's house to eat dinner. The food was so delicious because we haven't had rice in so long. It was really good to see everyone but a few hours after we got there the jetlag started to hit us and we were pretty exhausted. We said bye and I went home and we both slept.