Thursday, May 17, 2012

We have arrived!!!

After 24 hours of travel, we finally made it to Gdansk. We slept almost the entire first day and half of the second day but we are now back on track.

Our flight to Poland was as follows:

San Francisco > London > Copenhagen > Gdansk

Emilia's family and some friends, who have chosen to remain anonymous (you know who you are) came to the airport to see us off. A gracious gift from a dear friend left my head with a cushiony surprise for the long journey.

Our first flight was not without some excitement. Due to the addition of some new body scanning technology at the airport, we were left with 8 minutes until our flight left. Emilia took off like Usain Bolt toward the Gate. "Passengers Emilia and Scott, last call, Emilia and Scott." We ran as fast as we could, dove under the closing plane doors, and ended up safely in our seats gasping for air. Count it!

After grandma (babcia) greeted us at the airport in Gdansk, we knew our extended vacation had truly begun. Warmed up with homemade chicken noodle soup, we fell into an endless sleeping coma. In the next month, we plan on spending quality time with babcia, aunts and friends as well as daily trips to the bakery for fresh bread to have along with our Nescafe coffees.

Here is a picture of our first day in the city center with Mila's childhood best friend Karolina.




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Location:Gdansk, Poland

6 comments:

  1. glad you made your flight (ever so barely). have fun in country-i-can't-pronounce.

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  2. YAAAYY!! Glad you guys made it! Can't believe you guys cut it that close at the airport! Why am I using so many exclamations! We're just really excited for you guys :) We had to tell ourselves that we will see you in a few weeks as to not get too sad... Keep us all posted on the adventures. Maybe some pics of BioWay and Babciu. Babciu eating at BioWay would be ideal... Give everyone our love! Thanks for the post! Keep em' coming...

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  3. Is that Patrick Norris commenting up there?! So glad you guys made it sound and safe! Looking forward to more updates soon! <3 the marge

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    1. He makes me comment. He said if I don't comment on each and every post he'll beat me when he gets back (and he really means this :)

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  4. Yay! You made it! You two look so happy in the picture :) Miss you already! I can't wait to read the next post!
    Lots of love!

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  5. we used to have a coffeecup mug with buildings like those in the background. i wonder what happened to that thing?

    p.s. this updating the blog once a week is not gonna cut it. we need updates people, updates!

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