The Essay About the Insane Last 40 Hours.

Hello world!! Yes I am alive! And I had the most eventful plane trip I have ever had. Like I didn't realise how much could go wrong cause all the plane trips I've had in the past go so smoothly! It's probably just b.c my mom was there to take care of the problems.. but still!! Lets see... it all started in Auckland *looks off into distance* 

So after I cried at the airport hugging the like 15 amazing people who came to say bye I go through security etc etc. Get on the plane like maybe ten minutes late thinking, all good! That's hardly late at all.. Get on the plane and sit there for 2 and a half freaking hours, without the plane moving btw. Why had we not moved? B.c there was something wrong with the engine so they had engineers on the plane fixing it. Which is always reassuring.. hoping the engine wasn't going to fall apart in the middle of the sky. So knowing that I had a 2.5 hour layover in LAX I realised that we would only just be arriving in LA when my plane for Frankfurt was leaving.. Thats fine! But the head stewardess person told us they would sort it all out when we landed and rebook flights for everyone who missed their flights. So I enjoyed my 10.5 hour flight the best I could :) I ended up sitting in a row of three, I was on the outside then an empty seat then this amazing like 10 year old little boy that was in the ice hockey team that was taking up half the plane was sitting next to the window. He talked so much! But he was just a polite little kid. I never did get his name.. oh well! Anonymous Boy is his name now :) 

So then we landed in LA. One of the grossest cities I've seen. You fly in and there is just this layer of smog floating in the air. Kicking back up there pretending to be a cloud but really its just fossil fuels! Ugh. Then there was the Americans. I think I met maybe two that I actually liked. And they were Mexican. The food lady and a baggage lady. The Americans just got so stressed out when our plane got there cause there were all these people who had missed their flights right and they got all angry and impatient and were like telling old people off for being slow. It was crazy. So after they book me new flights which now mean that I am flying through Munich instead of Frankfurt I head off to go to my gate! 5 hours early.. Which was actually so nice. Gave me time to deswell.. :D Right.. so I am looking for this departures area and I get lost. Find this old man who has one of those information i's on his shirt and he was like 'hahahah well your in the completely wrong terminal!' That's right. Make fun of the lost girl. But he pointed me in the right direction. So I get there and all it says everywhere is ARRIVALS kuuuup! So I go ask this other old info man and he completely just doesn't answer my question and like tries to sell me something. Oh he did tell me a floor to go on. But not where on the floor... So I get to level 3 walk in a giant circle, past all these food places and internet places and even though I am starving and have to email Sophie (the girl I'm staying with in Vienna) I say to myself, there will be some past security. I just want to find my gate! Finally find security and go through while there is no line. As I am walking down the long long hall way, to my horror there is no food or internet places there. There was a bar and like candy stores. So I go into the bar and buy a sandwiche, apple and drink. Costing me $17.. :O Couldn't find the internet so I decided to call the parents and just tell them to email Sophie. That was actually pretty exciting and so weird though! Then I sat and watched Vampire Diaries and it was glorious! Had the best sandwich ever.. Nom nom. 

Okay time to board! Get on board with all these insanely tall as Germans! So tall. And so many with blonde hair and blue eyes. I truly belonged! :D So I was in a row of two seats.. I got them all to myself! And it was a window seat. It was so amazing to stretch out my legs. At this point I was a bit wired from the no jet-lag pills and was pretty much having a conversation with myself in my travel journal. As you can tell from how freaking long this is I haven't talked in a long time! I have to admit that LA does look pretty at night. It looks like someone put a Christmas light blanket on it. So as we were flying over the states we flew over a lighting storm!! It was honestly one of the coolest things I have ever seen. It looked like little bombs were getting dropped. Cause you look out the window to a black sky where you can just make out the clouds then there is a flash of light! So cool.. So anyway got to Munich half an hour late b.c we had to veer off course for the amazing lighting so I like ran to my terminal. It is the weirdest thing seeing all these signs and not knowing what they say. But i found it! With time to spare! Then I started thinking.. how is my luggage going to get on this plane in like half an hour?? (I had just under an hour from the time we landed til my next plane left) but i figure, they must be good at their jobs! Super speedy and all that. 

So I get on the Austria Airplane where everyone around me is speaking German and the old man next to me doesn't speak English... haha so at one point when they are coming around with drinks, they ask if I want a drink in German of course and I go.. 'ummm can I please have a diet coke?' and they gave me that fizzy water stuff? That you mix with other things? yum.... at this point I feel like I have been on a plane my whole life! But this plane ride is nice and short! Only about an hour. So I get there and go to the luggage carousel and stand there for 45 minutes.. saying to myself, this is so not happening right now. And Sophie and her mum have been waiting out the securitz doors for 45 minutes as well and I feel so bad! So I start freaking out a little and go find the people so I can get it sent to me. Sigh. So I am living off of one outfit. Which are pretty much pajamas for the next 3 days. They said it should be here in 3 days though so before I go to Salzburg I should have it. Plus I got one of those like here is some toothpaste and a giant tshirt kits they give you. Until then I suppose I will just have to go SHOPPING!! 

Driving back from the airport was so amazing. They have the oldest buildings here that are so beautiful! And two castles and a parliament building that looks like the White House on steroids. And a building that Hitler was in and is where he told the Austrians that they are Germans now! So much awesomeness. Their town hall looks like a cathedral. And Sophie's apartment is so lovely and old! So I cannot wait to go explore up close tomorrow! 5 million photos here I come!